what is the difference between ancient temples and current time temples
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Temples in Ancient India
The earliest architecture that anyone knows about from India dates to 3300 BC-1300BC in Indus Valley Civilization and more particularly from 2500 BC, in the Harappan period in northern India (modern Pakistan). The Harappans built big cities, with walls around them and public baths and warehouses and paved streets. But when Harappan civilization collapsed, about 2000 BC, almost two thousand years went by before anybody in India built a big stone building again.
When Indian architects did begin to build big buildings again, about 250 BC, at first they built them of wood. Nobody in India knew how to build big stone buildings so they wouldn't fall down.
Architects started by building solid stone buildings, basically mounds of dirt covered with brick or stone like the earlier ziggurats in West Asia and the pyramids in Egypt. People called these buildings stupas.
Soon after this, about 200 BC, architects began to carve Buddhist temples into the sides of cliffs, so they were taking away stone instead of building with stone. This is easier, so it was a good place to start.
Temples in Modern Period
In south India, about 1000 AD, the Chola king Rajaraja the Great (his name means King-king) built a very big temple to the HindugodShiva. South India was richer than North India, so they could build bigger buildings. Like the northern temples, this southern temple has a shikhara (tower), but this tower is much higher - thirteen stories high! The southern temple is also much longer than the northern one, and is has several porches (mandapas) on the front instead of only one. Like the northern temples, the southern temples also have flat stone roofs. This temple is about fifty feet high, not counting the tower - compare this to Romanesque churches in Europe built about the same time, or to the Fatimid mosques in Egypt. Because it is so hot and sunny most of the time in southern India, the architects were more concerned to keep the sun out, so the temple would stay cool, than to let in light, as innorthern Europe.
By 1061 AD, with India a leading manufacturer of steel, some builders in India started to use a new method of building using iron beams to replace wooden beams, because wooden beams were very hard to get in India. One example is Brahmeshwar temple in eastern India at Orissa.
The earliest architecture that anyone knows about from India dates to 3300 BC-1300BC in Indus Valley Civilization and more particularly from 2500 BC, in the Harappan period in northern India (modern Pakistan). The Harappans built big cities, with walls around them and public baths and warehouses and paved streets. But when Harappan civilization collapsed, about 2000 BC, almost two thousand years went by before anybody in India built a big stone building again.
When Indian architects did begin to build big buildings again, about 250 BC, at first they built them of wood. Nobody in India knew how to build big stone buildings so they wouldn't fall down.
Architects started by building solid stone buildings, basically mounds of dirt covered with brick or stone like the earlier ziggurats in West Asia and the pyramids in Egypt. People called these buildings stupas.
Soon after this, about 200 BC, architects began to carve Buddhist temples into the sides of cliffs, so they were taking away stone instead of building with stone. This is easier, so it was a good place to start.
Temples in Modern Period
In south India, about 1000 AD, the Chola king Rajaraja the Great (his name means King-king) built a very big temple to the HindugodShiva. South India was richer than North India, so they could build bigger buildings. Like the northern temples, this southern temple has a shikhara (tower), but this tower is much higher - thirteen stories high! The southern temple is also much longer than the northern one, and is has several porches (mandapas) on the front instead of only one. Like the northern temples, the southern temples also have flat stone roofs. This temple is about fifty feet high, not counting the tower - compare this to Romanesque churches in Europe built about the same time, or to the Fatimid mosques in Egypt. Because it is so hot and sunny most of the time in southern India, the architects were more concerned to keep the sun out, so the temple would stay cool, than to let in light, as innorthern Europe.
By 1061 AD, with India a leading manufacturer of steel, some builders in India started to use a new method of building using iron beams to replace wooden beams, because wooden beams were very hard to get in India. One example is Brahmeshwar temple in eastern India at Orissa.
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Temples are places where the hindus go to worship. The difference between the current temples and the old time temples is that current temple are bulit using stones. Currently all most all temples are bulit using rock. Rocks are believed to be durable in that they ar going to last forever. The ancient templrs were bulit using woods that before people discorvered that rocks could be used to bulid temples.
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