Visit temples- tours

They created art in stone so that even if you went blind you could still see”

With this translation of a song I welcome you to the “Indian Heritage Architecture” thread in the belief that you too will share in the beauty and relevance of our ancient architecture and to contribute to preserving it in the centuries to come.

This thread is about the architectural marvels -the temples and houses and forts and those fantabulous monuments that are witness to our history, our past that gives us our roots, that is so part of our psyche, who we are and who we will be.

To know is to keep the knowledge alive. Every time I see a Discovery or a similar channel portraying Egypt or China, I am left wondering what happened to that other great living in a continuum civilization called India.

Do we not have architecture, a lifestyle, a history, a culture-no many cultures- that are simply astounding and marvelous architectural and scientific wonders?

In my travels I see people talk of two hundred years ago with so much pride and I think-so many of us can trace ours ancestries to many thousand years, many of us have heirlooms that are a few hundred years.

So here is a place where

You can share knowledge of these beauties,

Help preserve them,

Contribute your little mite to do wonders,

To leave this, in all its splendor, for generations to come to take pride in them and feel rooted.

And maybe in this journey we could also discover something in ourselves and about ourselves. That would be the biggest reward.