Hindu temple architecture
(重定向自Hindu architecture)
![Angkor Wat, a World Heritage Site and one of the world's largest Hindu temples.[1] This Cambodian temple deploys the same circles and squares grid architecture as described in ancient Indian Vastu Sastras.](/uploads/202501/18/Angkor_Wat3425.jpg)


The Hindu temple architecture is an open, symmetry driven structure, with many variations, on a square grid of padas, deploying perfect geometric shapes such as circles and squares. A Hindu temple consists of an inner sanctum, the garbha griha or womb-chamber, where the primary idol or deity is housed along with Purusa. The garbhagriha is crowned by a tower-like Shikhara, also called the Vimana. The architecture includes an ambulatory for parikrama (circumambulation), a congregation hall, and sometimes an antechamber and porch.