Experience the best of Tanjore temple tours in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu India
Embark on the spiritual sojourn with Tanjore temple tours and visit the Brihadeeswara Temple Tanjore. Visit to Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu India not only evokes traditional values and religious fervor but it offers creativity in galore in temples of Thanjavur bearing testimony of Tanjore painting. The classical Thanjavur Paintings in India are the hallmark of Tanjore temple tours attracting millions of devotees and art lovers altogether.
It’s name says it all: Tanjore is known as the “garden of South India”. Not only is it home to some of the lushest gardens, but one of the most beautiful temples built in India, Brihadisvara Temple.
Tanjore is rich with the history of battles between the different dynasties of south India: the Cholas, the Pallavas, the Pandyas and the Cheras. During the 9th to the 13th centuries, Tanjore was the capital of "Cholamandalam” and the "kingdom of the Cholas”. The Chola’s reigned during the golden age of south India, ruling from Sri Lanka, to the current Malaysia and Sumatra islands of Indonesia.
The 13-story Brihadisvara temple, was built in 1010 by Raja Raja in a pyramid form. When you enter the temple, you will gasp at the rich sculptures and wall paintings that are reflective of the Chola period. But even outside you will be amazed at the 180-foot-high Vimana (temple tower) that helped get the granite temple listed in 1987 on UNESCO’s world culture heritage list.
The cupola of the Vimana is carved out of an 80-ton single block of granite. History shows a four-mile-long ramp was constructed in order to erect the cupola on the pyramid-shaped temple tower. Through two imposing temple towers (Gopurams), you will enter the temple courtyard, which is surrounded by a wall and a colonnade. In a pavilion before the actual temple stands India’s third largest stone bull (Nandi) which was the mount of the God Shiva, to whom the temple is dedicated.
The main shrine of Brihadisvara temple is a 12-foot-high Shiva Lingam, the amorphous aspect of Shiva. Three smaller temples stand in the temple courtyard. During festival times, hundreds of priests, temple dancers, musicians and servants visit the temple.
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