Nagara Style

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The Nagara Style or Nagara architectural style is a Hindu style of temple architecture, which is popular in Northern, Central, Western and Eastern India, especially in the regions around Malwa, Rajputana and Kalinga. Temples classified as Nagara Style are found in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh (areas bordering Odisha) and West Bengal (southwest and Sundarbans areas). In the fifth century, the use of simple curved Shikhara (spires) began in temples; the earliest such temples being classified as Early Nagara Style. The Early Nagara Style was transformed into the Mainstream Nagara Style in the seventh century. This architectural style is one of the two main styles of Hindu temple architecture, the other being the Dravidian architectural style. The Nagara style has three sub-styles or schools, which differ slightly from each other. The sub-styles or schools are Orissa school, Chandel school...

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