Vishnu, with Narasimha in the sanctum and Narayana in the porticoGupta—
Sacred since
400 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
c. 400-425 (Gupta)
Gupta
History & significance
One of the oldest standing Hindu temples in India, the survivor of a group of some thirty-six stone shrines at Tigawa. Railway contractors quarried most of the group for building material in the late nineteenth century until villagers petitioned a British official to stop the demolition.