Temples in Nalanda (नालंदा)
One temple documented in Nalanda, 1 with a full guide.
Darshan timings and how to reach, for every temple we have written a guide for — plus the pujas families keep near each one. Temples we have documented but not yet written up are listed below by name.
When Nalanda's temples were built
The Surya temple at Baragaon is the district's oldest fabric in use. Sculpture recovered around its tank has been dated to the Pala period — the eighth to twelfth centuries, when Nalanda's mahavihara was at its height — and some of it is set into the walls of the present structure, which is far more recent.
That is the district's whole story in one building: a Pala landscape whose great institutions were destroyed, whose material was reused, and whose surviving worship carried on at village scale. The mahavihara itself is a monument now and not a place of worship.
Book a verified pandit in Nalanda
