One of the most popular legends about the Konark Sun Temple involves Dharmapada, a 12-year-old boy, and his father Bishu Maharana, the chief architect. It says that when King Narasimhadeva I ...

The Konark Sun Temple is located along the coastline of Odisha, about three km from the sea, and is heavily decorated with stone carving. The entire temple complex takes the form of the Sun God ...

which is a replica of the 700-year-old Konark Sun Temple. The festival was a forerunner amongst all the contemporary festivals of Orissa including the Konark Festival, which is held on the ...

Woven between crumbling temple towers and casuarina woods lies Konark's extraordinary Textile village, where age-old handicrafts traditions dating back over 700 years still thrive today.

Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Saturday (January 18, 2025) visited Raghurajpur artists' village and the Sun Temple at Konark in Odisha's Puri district on the second day of his tour ...

Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who is on a two-day visit to the coastal state of Odisha, went to Raghurajpur artists' village and the Sun Temple at Konark in the state's Puri district ...