Review Blogs

Search
Related Reviews
Featured Reviews
Most view Reviews
Review Categories

Top 15 most famous temples in the world

The spiritual world is always a part of spiritual life in every country in the world. By worshiping and being grateful to their gods, each country tries to build for itself the most sacred place of worship with the most unique architecture. Below are famous temples in the world that exist from ancient times to recently built temples.

1. Angkor Wat Temple

Name: Prasat Angkor Wat
Architectural style: Khmer
Area: 162.6 hectares
Year of construction: late 12th century
Country: Cambodia

When mentioning temples in the world, perhaps Angkor Wat is the name that comes to mind first. Prasat Angkor Wat is a temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world, covering 162.6 hectares. It was originally built as a Hindu temple by the Khmer Empire, and gradually converted into a Buddhist temple at the end of the 12th century. Khmer King Suryavarman II built Angkor Wat in the early 12th century at Yaśodharapura to worship the god Vishnu.
View Details

2. Karnak Temple

Name: Karnak temple complex
Architectural style: Ancient Egypt
Area: 69.86 hectares
Year of construction: 1580 - 1160 BC
Country: Egypt

Karnak Temple Complex, is a famous monument located in the city of Thebes, the former capital of Egypt. This site includes many ruins of temples, giant statues, worship halls and towers.


Located east of the Nile River, this temple was built between 1580 - 1160 BC. According to research, Karnak Temple is where Egyptians worshiped the sun god Amun - Ree (Sun god), Montu (war god) and Mut (Sun god's wife) and Pharaoh kings for many centuries. The temple was built continuously by about 30 successive Pharaohs. Each Pharaoh wanted to put his mark on Karnak temple with different architectural features.

View Details

3. Borobudur Temple

Name: Borobudur Temple or Ba La Phu Do
Architectural style: Javanese Buddhist architecture
Area: 0.25 hectares
Year of construction: VIII - IX century
Country: Indonesia

Borobudur is a large temple complex in central Java, Indonesia, one of the largest Buddhist temples and relics in the world. Located on a hilltop in the middle of a fertile plain, Borobudur towers over the basin, surrounded by mountains and forests. The temple was built around the 8th to 9th centuries under the Sailendra dynasty in the Javanese Buddhist architectural style.


Borobudur temple has 12 floors, stacked on top of each other, including six square, three round and topped with a circular roof. The temple is decorated with 2,672 carved relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. The top dome is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues, each placed in a stupa. The entire temple is built of 3,000 stones arranged in a square area of ​​2,500 m^2. From the foot of the hill, visitors have to climb more than 15 meters to reach the temple foundation. The structure of the temple consists of 12 alternating large, small, square, and round open-air platforms, overlapping each other to form a 42-meter high block. The length of each bottom edge is 123 m. If you climb each floor one by one and walk along the perimeter of all 12 floors, the total is 5 km.
View Details

4. Akmshardha Temple

Name: Akmshardha temple complex
Architectural style: Hindu
Area: 0.75 hectares
Year of construction: 2005
Country: India

Akshardham Temple is located on the banks of the Yamuna River, about 10km east of central New Delhi, India. Akshardham means eternal peace, the sacred abode of the Supreme Lord, the abode of eternal values.


Akshardham is India's most spectacular stone Hindu temple-tower complex, which began construction in 2001 and was completed in 2005. The main point of the complex is the Akshardham temple built of marble. of Italian Carrara and Rajasthani sandstone, absolutely no steel materials are used in the construction process. Sandstone (pink) symbolizes unchanging devotion and marble (white) symbolizes absolute purity and eternal peace.
View Details

5. Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple

Name: Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple
Architectural style: Dravidian architecture
Area: 63 hectares
Year of construction: 894 AD
Country: India

When talking about religion, we cannot ignore India - the cradle of religious civilization. The most prominent one is Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Srirangam which is an important temple, welcoming millions of visitors and pilgrimages each year. It is the largest important Hindu temple in the world (Ankor is the second largest).


The overall temple is very massive: It surrounds an area of ​​about 63 hectares with 7 concentric walls, the outermost wall is about 4 km long. Sri Ranganathaswamy temple is very famous because the entrance is under colorful pyramids. The temple has 21 overall walkways, the largest walkway has 15 floors and is nearly 60 meters high. This project includes 21 towers, the largest tower is 73 m high. Over the centuries, the temple became much larger than its original size.
View Details

6. Temple of Baalblek

Name: Temple of Baalblek
Area: 0.034 hectares
Architectural style: Roman architecture
Year of construction: 1st century BC
Country: Lebanon

If you are attracted by giant stone structures or Egyptian pyramids, the Baalbek temples will not disappoint you. Part of these ruins is located on the Litani River in the Bekaa Valley of Roman Lebanon, called the Temple of Jupiter.


From the 1st century BC and over the course of two centuries, the Romans built three temples here named after the stars: Jupiter, Mercury and Venus, forming the combination The largest temple in the Roman Empire. Jupiter's Baalblek temple is lined with 54 giant Granite columns, each side 21 meters high. Only 6 of these pillars still stand today and they are incredibly impressive. The best preserved temple at the site is the temple of Bacchus built in 150 AD. The ancient Roman temple was dedicated to Bacchus, also known as Dionysus, the Roman god of wine.

View Details

7. Temple of Christ - Savior.

Name: Cathedral of Christ the Savior
Architectural style: Eastern Roman cathedral
Year of construction: 1883
Country: Russia

Christ the Savior Cathedral, also known as Christ the Savior Cathedral, is the tallest and largest Russian Orthodox cathedral in the world. The church is located in the capital Moscow (Russia), on the banks of the Moskva River. The church was originally built in 1883, destroyed in 1931 under Stalin and faithfully rebuilt to its original model between 1995 and 2000.


The design and construction preparation work lasted for decades, and many architectures for the Temple of Christ - the Savior were proposed. At first, Alexander I approved a Neoclassical architecture, bearing the mark and symbol of Freemasonry. But by the time of the next Tsar, Nicholas I, a patriot and extremely devout Orthodox, a new design was proposed, modeled on the Eastern Roman cathedral (Hagia church). Sophia in Constantinople).
View Details

8. Temple of Saint Sava.

Name: Saint Java Church
Area: 0.035 ha/floor
Architectural style: Serbian-Byzantine
Year of construction: 1985
Country: Serbia

Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is home to the world's largest Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Java and among the world's largest church buildings. The church is dedicated to Saint Sava, founder of the Serbian Orthodox Church and an important figure in medieval Serbia. Construction on this structure began in 1985, but most of the work was only completed in 2004.


Saint Java's Church is shaped like a Greek cross. It has a large central dome supported on four projecting buttresses on each side by a lower semi-dome on an obelisk. Below each semi-arch is a gallery supported on a row of scrolls. The dome is 70m high, while the main gilded cross is 12m high, for a total of 82m the height of the Church of Saint Sava. The highest peak is 134m above sea level, 64m above the Sava River; Therefore, the cathedral holds a dominant position in Belgrade's cityscape and is visible from all approaches to the city.

View Details

9. Jetavanaramaya Tower

Name: Jetavanaramaya Tower
Architectural style: Buddhist
Area: 5.6 hectares
Year of construction: III century
Country: Sri Lanka

Coming to the ancient city of Anuradhapura, you cannot miss the strange relic Jetavanaramaya tower, a skyscraper stupa, located in the ruins of the giant Jetavana monastery. The tower is one of the tallest ancient structures in the ancient world that still exists.


In the 3rd century, this Jetavanaramaya stupa was built by the king to accommodate up to 10 thousand Mahayana Buddhist monks. This tower was built in an architectural complex of about 5.6 hectares. The height of the tower is 122 m, with an area of ​​233,000 m2. At the time of the structure's completion, it was the third tallest structure in the world after the Giza Pyramids. About 93,300,000 fired bricks were used to build the tower using the strangely skillful and sophisticated round roof technique.


Jetavanaramaya Tower belongs to the Sagalika sect and is estimated to have 10,000 Buddhist monks practicing here. Here, a part of the belt Buddha once wore is kept.

View Details

10. Grand Jaguar Temple.

Name: Grand Jaguar Temple
Area: 0.0006 hectares
Architectural style: Mayan architecture
Year of construction: IV century BC
Country: Guatemala – Central America

The Grand Jaguar Temple is located in the Petén Basin area of ​​Guatemala, the ruins of the ancient city of Tikal, an ancient city found in a rain forest in Eastern Guatemala, about 60 km2 wide, one of the major cities of the ancient civilization. Maya civilization and one of the largest cities in the world. Here, archaeologists have discovered 3,000 structures over an area of ​​6 square miles, with more than 200 sculpted stone monuments and altars. This is one of the largest Mayan pyramids.


The Grand Jaguar Temple was built in an ancient architectural style, with a stepped walkway in the middle, and the sides around the temple are also made in the form of stairs. At the top of the temple is an area with a dome structure, where there is a small door leading inside the temple and the interior layout is the same. The temple is 47m high, with very steep steps.
View Details

11. Harmandir Sahib Temple

Name: Harmandir Sahib Temple, Darbar Sahib Temple or Golden Temple
Area: 2.4 hectares
Architectural style: Sikhism
Year of construction: 1585
Country: India

Harmandir Sahib Temple is the most sacred temple of Sikhism, located in the city of Amritsar. This is one of the most sacred religious works that attract tourists in the world, welcoming up to 100,000 tourists every day. Any tourist who visits this famous temple will be attracted by the beauty of the golden temple, with its unique architecture and rich history. Harmandir Sahib Temple, Amritsar, India was built in 1585 and was not completed until 1604. It is estimated that in order to complete the temple with this outstanding yellow color, it took 100 kg of gold to plate the temples. the dome of the cathedral as well as the exterior surface.

View Details

12. Todaiji Temple

Name: Todaiji Temple or Eastern Great Temple
Architectural style: Buddhist
Year of construction: 752
Country: Japan

Todaiji Temple or Eastern Great Temple is a famous temple in Japan. The temple is now known as the mother temple of Buddhist temples in Nhat Ban. This temple was built with the contributions of 2,600,000 people through direct construction and participation in crafting bronze Buddha statues and other items. The temple is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site thanks to its rich history and unique artistic architecture with a strong Buddhist influence.


Inside the main hall of Todaiji temple, giant Buddha statues were built with the main statue being 15 meters high, representing Vairocana and flanked by two Bodhisattvas statues. Inside the main temple, one of the wooden pillars has a hole and allows people to crawl through if they want. According to legend, those holes are the same size as the nostrils of a Buddha statue. If people crawl through them, you will receive blessings and happiness.
View Details

13. Prambanan Temple

Exact name: Prambanan Temple or Rara Jonggrang
Architectural style: Hindu temple style
Year of construction: 850
Country: Indonesia

Prambanan Temple or Rara Jonggrang is a Hindu temple complex located in Yogyakarta province, Indonesia. This is the temple for Trimurti, the three supreme gods of Hinduism including the creator god Brahma, the maintainer god Vishnu and the destroyer god Shiva. Prambanan Temple is famous for its architecture with sharp and tall towers, the central tower is up to 47m high, located inside a large complex of temples.


Prambanan Temple is said to have been built in 850 under King Rakai Pikatan of the Medang kingdom. Around the main tower are hundreds of lower temple towers. This is considered the royal temple of the Hindu kingdom of Medang. During the heyday of the Medang kingdom, there were thousands of Brahmin monks and their disciples living around this complex. The temples collapsed in a major earthquake in the 16th century. Although people no longer perform worship rituals at this temple, the ruins in the nearby area are still easily recognizable. and come to this temple in the next life. Having gone through many events and reconstruction many times, the main temple was completed in 1953. However, currently the small temple towers have not been restored but the previous foundations can still be seen.

View Details

14. Thien Dan Temple

Name: Temple of Heaven, Temple of Heaven
Architectural style: Buddhist
Area: 273 hectares
Year of construction: 1420
Country: China

Temple of Heaven is a large religious building located southeast of Beijing, China. This is a huge work of high cultural value, classified as a world cultural heritage by UNESCO. The Temple of Heaven complex was built in 1420 during the reign of Emperor Yongle of Mingcheng, to perform sacrificial rituals.
View Details

15. Meiji Jingu altar lamp

Name: Meiji Jingu Shrine
Architectural style: Azekurazukuri style
Area: 70 hectares
Year of construction: 1915
Country: Japan

Meiji Jingu Shrine is one of the temples of the land of the rising sun, and is visited by many people in the first days of the year. Temples are everywhere in Japan, including temples with ties to the royal family, or temples to worship the emperor called "Jingu". Among temples, this is the one that attracts the most tourists in Japan. Surrounding the temple is a large jungle, all the trees in this forest are artificial. When building this temple, people searched many trees all over Japan. Even though it is just an artificial forest, when visitors visit, this scene is still enough to make visitors admire and immediately remind them of the temple.
View Details
Like the Top 15 most famous temples in the world? share me

Would you like to write a review for your company or brand?

Contact Us

Related Reviews

Latest Reviews

promotionsand ADs

category banner
category banner
category banner

© Copyright 2015 SmartCms All Rights Reserved.