Temples: history, architecture and distribution

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<!--QuoteBegin-Praneet N+Oct 2 2003, 09:30 PM-->QUOTE(Praneet N @ Oct 2 2003, 09:30 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->To encourage and promote tourism of these temples it would be worthwhile to post some of the feats of temple architecture or perhaps, a few comments of interesting history that members may have read or come across travelling.

I've been trying to find out where the largest Shiva lingam in the world is located, so far on templenet, found the largest one in South India at

Gangaikonda Choleswarar Temple at Gangaikonda Cholapuram, where the lingam stands at 4m tall :

http://www.templenet.com/Tamilnadu/brihgang.html

heres another in Jammu, the quote :
Ranbireshwar Temple

It is the biggest Shiva temple in North India. Got constructed by the Dogra rulers, this temple has the biggest Lingam of 7 ft. in black stone.

http://jammukashmir.nic.in/profile/jammu.htm

another link with a great picture of the Ranbireshwar temple lingam :
http://www.jammukashmirinfo.com/Jammu/j_temples.htm

Largest Shiva statue in Bangalore standing at 65 ft tall
http://www.onlinebangalore.com/tour/religi...on.html#hanuman

Largest hanuman statue outside India in trinidad stands tall at 85 ft (pic)
http://www.palli.ch/~kapeskreyol/ki_nov/hanuman.htm

Largest hanuman in India??
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Hai,

Visit the http://www.templeyatra.com. This site contains the Lord Siva, Lord Vishnu and Lord Murugan temples in Tamil Nadu and some other parts in allover India. This site also describe details of Alwars, Nayanmars and Arunagirinathar. I got this site from yahoo search engine. Really its nice to view and handle.

Bye
Neelakandan