Its Shadow Disappears at Noon.Thanjavur Brihadeeswara temple is one of the most ancient temple, situated in the city of Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, India.
It was remade by the Cholas from a collection of villages into a major temple center 1000 years ago, with the construction of the Brihadisvara Temple in the center of the city, and the city then built up around it.
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The main attraction here is the huge tower above the sanctum which is about 216 feet.
Till Date its the tallest temple: The temple was built at a fair clip, completed in mere 7 years, amounting to moving and placing almost 50 tons of rock each and every day, not to forget carving and aligning it.
A thousand years later, standing at 216 feet, it is still the tallest temple in India.
The Arulmigu Sri Rajakaliamman Glass Temple is one of the oldest Hindu temples in Johor Bahru, the second largest city of Malaysia and one of the leading tourist attractions.
The temple was inherited by Sri Sinnathamby Sivasamy from his father and he remade the humble temple made of all glass with an inspiration from shine of glass artwork which he seen when he was riding in a tuk-tuk.
The whole temple complex is covered by 300,000 vivid and colorful glass pieces and the mosaic is adorned with thousands of beads made of glass, along with statues of Mother Teresa and Gautama Buddha.
Adorned in glass, the murals have some of the modern scenes of cross-faith love like one of Christian and Muslim helping Hindu who is in trouble and kindness.
There are crystal chandeliers which pass the light on pillars, doors, ceilings and walls in bright blaze which initially blinds.
A mosaic of over 300,000 pieces of blue, red, green, yellow, white and purple glass have embellished around 90% of temple structure.
