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' The Hindu Palace '), is a distinctive and historic mansion in Heliopolis, a suburb northeast of central Cairo, Egypt. [1] [2] It was built in 1905 for Édouard Empain, Baron Empain, a Belgian businessman and industrialist with particular interests in tramways. [3] [4] The building was inspired architecturally by Hindu temples.
A Hindu temple, also known as Mandir (in Sanskrit), Devasthanam (in Konkani and Hindi), Pura (in Balinese), or Kovil (in Tamil), is a sacred place where Hindus worship and show their devotion to deities through worship, sacrifice, and prayers. It is considered the house of the god to whom it is dedicated.
King Joseph at Point Breeze, portrait of Joseph Bonaparte painted at the estate on 2 February 1832, by Innocent-Louis Goubaud. In 1816, after he had fled Europe following the defeat of his brother at Waterloo, Joseph Bonaparte bought the property and the land from American diplomat Stephen Sayre (1736–1818).
The House of Bonaparte (originally Buonaparte) [a] is a former imperial and royal European dynasty of French and Italian origin. It was founded in 1804 by Napoleon I , the son of Corsican nobleman Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Buonaparte (née Ramolino).
The temple was built on the site of Babri Masjid, a mosque dating to the 16th century that was destroyed by Hindu nationalist mobs in 1992, setting off riots across the country that killed about ...
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir [a] is a Hindu temple complex located in Chino Hills, in southwestern San Bernardino County in southern California. The temple belongs to the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha denomination of Hinduism. However, the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is open to visitors of all faiths. [1]
Architecture of a Hindu temple (Nagara style). These core elements are evidenced in the oldest surviving 5th–6th century CE temples. Hindu temple architecture as the main form of Hindu architecture has many different styles, though the basic nature of the Hindu temple remains the same, with the essential feature an inner sanctum, the garbha griha or womb-chamber, where the primary Murti or ...
Hindu architecture is the traditional system of Indian architecture for structures such as temples, monasteries, statues, homes, market places, gardens and town planning as described in Hindu texts. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The architectural guidelines survive in Sanskrit manuscripts and in some cases also in other regional languages.