The colossal Surya temple at Konarak in…

The colossal Surya temple at Konarak in Orissa, the most immense and ambitious of northern Indian Hindu temple complexes, takes the form of the giant horse-drawn sacred chariot associated with Surya the sun god, to whom the temple is dedicated.

Believed to have been begun by king Narasimhadeva I of the Eastern Ganga Dynasty in about 1240, the temple is never completed; by the end of the thirteenth century, the Muslim conquest has put an end to Hindu art in northern India.