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🛕 The Brihadeeswarar Temple is usually addressed by its nick name “Thanjavur Big Temple”. Before getting deeper into the history of the temple, here are the few interesting facts about the Big Temple

The Temple was built by Raja Raja Chola in the year 1010 CE
This Grand Structure celebrated its 1000th year in September 2010
The Temple has the world’s tallest temple tower (Vimanam)
The huge Nandi Statue at the entrance is carved out of a single rock weighing around 20 tons
The Statue of the main Deity “Lord Shiva” is about 12 feet
It took 34 years to build this Wonder premise
🛕 The Vedas say that in the olden days there were two predominant caste system prevailed in the Hindusthan namely Saiva and Vainava. People who follow Saiva worship Lord Shiva as their Supreme Being while people belonging to Vainava adore Lord Vishnu as their deity. The Saiva religion is believed to be the Divinity of the Tamil Peopleand formerly the Saiva religion is followed by various countries across the world. The People who spread this Saiva religion and its life styles were “Cholas”. The people from Chola Dynasty even considered Bay of Bengal as a small Lake and they spread the glory of Saiva religion across many empires. The Tanjore Brihadeeshwara Temple was constructed by one such great emperor from the Chola Dynasty – Raja Raja Cholan and designed by Kunjara Mallan Raja Rama Perunthachan.

🛕 This temple holds many wonders within it. The temple follows a rock-cut architecture. The foundation of the temple is laid in a very technical way considering the inclination of the Earth’s Axis. This temple was constructed meticulously using bipolar technique and the temple tower was designed with a light weight monolith. This Grand Structure was designed in such a way that it can adapt itself to the rotation of the Earth and this is the reason that this structure stands erect even after Tanjore had been hit by five Earthquakes.

🛕 The Temple holds creativity and thousands of stories behind each and every brick. This Temple not only serves as a place of spiritual importance but also as a bank, an art gallery and community attraction. The inscriptions in this Temple refer this place as “Rajarajeshwaram”.