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📷 Hiroki Ogawa · CC BY 3.0
Where in the world
India
The site
The Khajuraho Group of Monuments is a cluster of Hindu and Jain temples in Madhya Pradesh, India, mostly raised by the Chandela dynasty around 950 to 1050 CE. Famed for their Nagara-style architecture, the temples carry a profusion of sculpture, including celebrated erotic scenes. Once numbering some 85 shrines, only about 25 survive; the site lay forgotten and jungle-grown until a British engineer reported it in 1838.
Field notes
- civilizations
- Ancient India (Gupta)
- types
- Temple
- occupied
- 950 CE — 1,050 CE
- country
- India
Monuments & structures
What stands within Khajuraho Group of Monuments
Hindu templeChitragupta Temple
Hindu templeVishvanath Temple
Hindu templeDuladeo Temple
Hindu templeVamana Temple, Khajuraho
Hindu templeBrahma Temple
Hindu templeChausath Yogini Temple, Khajuraho
ruinsGhantai temple
Jain templeParshvanatha Temple
Hindu templeChaturbhuj Temple, Khajuraho
Hindu templeJavari Temple, Khajuraho
Hindu templeMatangeshvara temple, Khajuraho
Hindu templeLalguan Mahadeva temple
templeShantinatha temple
Hindu templeParvati Temple
Jain templeAdinatha temple
Hindu templePratapesvara Temple, Khajuraho
Hindu templeMahadeva Temple
group of structures or buildingsKhajuraho Protected Temple Area
group of structures or buildingsKhajuraho chopra tank
