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India’s Top 5 Hindu Temples

  India’s Top 5 Hindu Temples There are about 900 million Hindus in the world and most of them are found in India. There are thousands of Hindu temples in this country and each one is famous for its own specialties. There is a wide variety of temples like temple built out of one rock, temple built with gold leaves, temple with hanging pillar and so on. This article talks about top five Hindu temples in the country. 1. Meenakshi Amman Temple Meenakshi Amman Temple is  dedicated to Goddess Meenakshi Amman and Sundareswar  (a form of Lord Shiva and Lord Parvathi). There is no specific detail about when this temple was built. Descriptions of this temple is found in literature that was written in 7 th  century and thus, it is believed that it was built before that period. The present structure was built in 17 th  century as a remodeling due to damage by invaders. This temple has 14 towers and 2 golden gopuras. This temple has a hall of thousand pillars. Every ye...