Pune · Dubai
“The temple is a link between man and God, between the earthly life
and the divine life, between the actual and the ideal.”
India craft · global projects — drawn, carved and raised since four generations
More than a thousand temples entrusted to us. Indian craft drawn to shastra, stone from our own yard, carving in our own karkhana, and our karigars beside you until the deity is installed — in India and on sites abroad. Nagara, Dravida and Vesara — all three, in house.
A global temple construction company · Pune office · Dubai office
01 · Anatomy
The temple is a modelled mountain built over a windowless cell. Below, courses of plinth lift it clear of the earth; above, the tower narrows to a single pot of water and grain. Touch a member to read what it does — and switch tradition to see the same body speak a different language.
Section, summit to ground · Nagara latina
The spire · literally, mountain peak
The curvilinear tower over the sanctum, its walls leaning inward along a parabolic profile struck from a rekha curve. A latina temple carries one spire; sekhari and bhumija cluster many miniature spires against it.
Built in corbelled courses over the sanctum, hollow within, each course set back by a measured offset. The curve is not eyeballed — it is drawn full size on the yard floor and every course template is cut from it.
The grid beneath the plan
Before a single course is laid, the site is squared into a mandala — 64 cells for a temple of nine bays, 81 for the paramasayika grid. Every cell carries a presiding deity. The nine at the centre are the Brahmasthana: kept open, unloaded, never built upon. The sanctum’s centre is struck from that point.
Doorways, the ambulatory, the flagstaff and the balipitha all take their positions from this grid, and the whole temple’s proportion follows one module — the tala or the width of the sanctum. This is why a true survey and a true east matter more than any ornament added afterwards.
81-cell paramasayika · centre nine kept open
02 · Three traditions
The traditions parted over geography, stone, climate and language — not over doctrine. We build in all three, and we will tell you plainly which one your site, your stone budget and your community are best served by.
A curvilinear spire leaning inward as it climbs, crowned by the ribbed amalaka and a kalasha, standing on a raised jagati — usually with no compound wall and no gateway tower. Three sub-types: latina, the single spire; phamsana, broader and lower under sloped slabs; valabhi, wagon-vaulted.
Plate · a vimana of seven storeys · drawing by Ms Sarah Welch, CC BY-SA 4.0
A stepped pyramid of diminishing storeys — talas — each ringed by a parapet of miniature shrines: square kuta, barrel-vaulted shala, apsidal panjara. Counted ekatala, dvitala and upward, commonly to seven. Here shikhara names only the domed capstone. The precinct is walled by prakara, entered through gopura, and holds a tank.
The hybrid of the Deccan: northern curvature carried over southern storeys, often on a stellate plan turned out of a rotated square, with lathe-turned pillars and soapstone worked almost to filigree. The most sculptural of the three, and the most demanding of a carver’s hand.
03 · Selected works
Craft from the yard and the karkhana — stone, carving and temple fabric. Captions stay generic; project names are not listed here.
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Built for the deity first — and then for every generation that will come to stand before it.
04 · Quarry to consecration
Drawing, estimate, stone, carving, dry-fit, freight and erection all sit under one roof — which is what keeps a shastra-correct temple inside a real budget and a real calendar.
Survey, true orientation, soil, and the vastupurusha grid struck on the ground. The sanctum centre is fixed here and never moves again.
Plan, elevation and section to shastra proportion, with the iconographic programme set against the agama for your deity. Issued as buildable drawings, not renders.
A line-item cost against those drawings: stone, carving, freight, erection. Committees get the version they can put to a vote.
Selected from our own yard and quarry contacts — Jaisalmer and Bansi Paharpur sandstone, Makrana marble, Karnataka granite, soapstone. Tested, then blocked to size.
Cut and carved in our karkhana by our own karigars, working to full-size templates. Iconography reviewed by the sthapati at rough, medium and finish.
The shrine is trial-assembled at the yard, corrected, dismantled, and every stone numbered against the manifest before it is crated.
Our crew raises it on your ground, finishes in place, and stays through the consecration rites. Then a maintenance note for the trust.
05 · Scope of work
Designs comply strictly with traditional rule, with modified adaptations where a contemporary site, climate or building code demands it. We conceptualise to your taste and your budget, and we stand by an approved plan through execution.
Ask for a drawing and estimate
06 · Global temple construction
We are a global temple construction company with roots in Indian craft: drawn and carved in Pune, with the Dubai office carrying meetings, approvals, freight and customs for the Gulf, Africa and further afield.
The shrine is assembled at our karkhana, corrected, then dismantled — so nothing is discovered for the first time on your site.
Each piece carries its course and position. The manifest doubles as the assembly drawing — for your customs broker and for the crane crew.
Carvers and the sthapati fly with the consignment and stay through erection, finishing and the pratishtha rites.
Committees meet us at the Dubai office and see drawings, stone samples and costings in person — while the stone work continues at the Pune yard.
Seismic, wind, snow and fire requirements are engineered in without breaking the proportional system the shastra sets.
07 · Lineage
Our ancestors came from the small tribal village of Harishchandra Tanda. They learned the trade alongside temple contractors from South India, and in time became masters of it. Four generations on, more than a thousand temples stand.
The house is held now by the new generation: over fifty carving and civil groups, sthapatis working to agama and shilpa shastra, and architects and engineers trained at IIT and the Sir J. J. School of Art. Traditional practice, kept honest by measurement.
08 · Speak to us
One call is usually enough to know whether we are the right house for your temple — whether the site is in India or overseas. Committees are welcome to put us on speaker; we answer in English (and Marathi or Hindi when asked). Gulf and Africa committees can meet us in Dubai.
Send us a photo of the site or a sketch — we reply with a direction the same day.
Mon–Sat, 9 am to 8 pm IST. Overseas committees — name a time and we will call you.
Drawings, stone samples and costings can be reviewed at either of our two offices — or sent to your committee ahead of a call.
Meetings, approvals, site visits and customs for Gulf and African projects.
Maharashtra, India. Drawings, stone yard, carving and export.