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Konark Sun Temple

Konark, Puri District, Odisha Saura tradition

Served from the stored corpus. Last scan Sep 28, 2026. Next scan Oct 28, 2026.

Photograph

Stored photograph. The earliest frame in this record is 1880s.

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Photograph from about 1890 showing a stone elephant at the elephant gateway of the Konark Sun Temple.

Elephant gateway

Cornish photographed a stone elephant at the elephant gateway about 1890.

  1. 1880s Mandapa from the east
  2. 1880s Mandapa from the south
  3. 1890 Eastern doorway
  4. About 1890 Elephant gateway
  5. 1890 Horse statues
  6. About 1890 West side of the mandapa

About 1890 William Henry Cornish, about 1890. Public domain, Archaeological Survey of India, via Wikimedia Commons. Source and license

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Sanctum Unknown or insufficient evidence · Medium confidence No measured plan is stored. The sanctum is named from the secondary account, not from a drawing.