Guess the Architecture for 1/30/2018

That's what I thought, "The Forbidden City":-

But I'm not convinced.

That looks like what I was thinking, but it's not it. Jacky Chan has been in a lot of movies, many with architecture like that, he has to be one of the hardest working guys in show business.

I just watched the "Foreigner", "Skip Trace", and "Kung Fu Yoga", thoroughly enjoyed them all.

It's not in China....

It looks like the imprint on a coin. Did you photoshop it?

It might be on a coin, but not to my knowledge...It's a very old building....

My guess:

Is that a horizontal slit in the door ?

If yes, is it caervonshire related ?

Possibly Greco Romanesque ?

It's not in Whales....

You mean Wales?

Whales:

Wales:

The ancient city of Petra.

It's not in Jordan....three simple search words bring the answer on the first page

That's right, and a GA!

Hoyasaleswara, of course, one of the easy words.

Good answer brother :)

I can't wait for solar eagles next set of " easy " words.

Hoooya.

Ha! We have a winner!

..."The Chennakeshava Temple, also referred to as Keshava, Kesava or Vijayanarayana Temple of Belur, is a 12th-century Hindu temple in the Hassan district of Karnataka state, India. It was commissioned by King Vishnuvardhana in 1117 CE, on the banks of the Yagachi River in Belur also called Velapura"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennakeshava_Temple,_Belur

The search terms were "historically significant buildings"....

Buddhist temple in Cambodia?

Ha: I found that one too:-

But no cigars for either of us.

Oh, go ahead and both have a vape pen on me for meritorious contribution.

SolarEagle’s submission was the Channakeshava Temple in Belur, as SCOT correctly guessed. “The Hindu” indicates that the temple was constructed by Vishnuvardhana of the Hoysala dynasty and is “considered to be the first temple of Hoysala style.”

Historian and expert in Hoysala architecture Srivatsa Vati explained that “[s]oon after winning a war in 1104, Vishnuvardhana took up the construction of the temple, and according to an inscription, the temple was ready by March 1117.”

In a writeup on Hoysala architecture, Ancient History Encyclopedia Ltd. says this of the temple:

“This is an ekakuta, i.e., a temple with one shrine. Regrettably, the shikhara [superstructure] has been lost to the ravages of time. The garbha griha [sanctum sanctorum] houses an enshrined image of Krishna (Chenna means beautiful whereas Kesava is another name of Krishna).

"The whole temple, built on a grand scale, follows the general pattern of Hoysala architecture. It has an east–west orientation set on a jagati [raised platform]. The hall has 60 bays and a shrine measuring 10 m on either side. Under the eave cornice of mandapa (outdoor ritual hall) there are 38 most wonderfully sculpted figures called salabhanjika or madanika (bracket figures). Their placements and inscriptions reveal these to be later additions (primarily during the reign of Veer Ballala II)."

Image Sources: Wikimedia and Ancient History Encyclopedia Ltd.