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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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  • Identified from a secondary account This line records the published identification only. It does not add a construction date or a height. Date not established in this corpus · Documented fact · Medium confidence

Evidence summary

Counts are records in this corpus, including gaps.

6 Republishable photographs
0 Interior photographs
0 Diagrams
1 Documents

About the temple

The Sun Temple stands at Konark, on the coast of Odisha. Secondary accounts dedicate it to Surya and describe the standing mandapa as a thirteenth-century Eastern Ganga building. The tower over the sanctum is no longer standing. That account is not checked against an inscription edition here. William Henry Cornish photographed the mandapa for the Archaeological Survey in the 1880s and about 1890. Those are the earliest photographs stored here. Drawings from 1809 onward were not ingested.

Primary deity: Surya

Secondary accounts place the standing mandapa in the thirteenth century. That date is not checked against an inscription edition here. The stored photographs begin in the 1880s.