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Vishwanatha Temple
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| About Vishwanatha Temple
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A three-headed image of Brahma is enshrined in this temple. The approach is equally impressive, with lions flanking the northern and elephants the southern steps leading up to it. A Nandi bull guards the Shivalinga enshrined within, facing the shrine.
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| The exteriors
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Women depicted in this temple draw the most attention. Both the interior and exterior carving are magnificent. The women carved on the brackets inside and the charming apsaras outside add enormously to the beauty of the temple. With a shrine of Shiva that finds expression as the bull Nandi, it is quite a complete temple and is truly impressive and also commonly photographed.
The exteriors are profusely carved, and facing the shrine is a Nandi Temple with a massive, 6 ft high Nandi bull.
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| The structure
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This is one of the most important of the Shiva temples. It closely resembles the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple in its style and composition. The temple measures about 27.4 metre x 13.7 metre.
The Vishvanatha temple is in the northeast corner of the western group of temples. Now, only two subsidiary shrines of the original four remain.
Though quite spectacular in its own right, temple is only a smaller copy of the largest and most impressive of the temples of the western group at Khajuraho.
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