Stock photography, photos: Somnathpur Temple Details - India Stock photos of Details of carvings at Somnathpur. At Somnathpur there is a style of architecture unique to the region. The temples were built in the twelfth to thirteenth centuries by Hoysala rulers and their officials. They are comparatively stunted (unlike the temple at Madurai, the Lingaraja of Orissa, or the large temples of Khajuraho). Each small, compact, structural temple is lavishly decorated with sculpture and the profusion cover every inch of wall space. This tightly packed sculptural scheme is exclusive to Hoysala art and was never replicated. Somnathpur, India. Photograph: © Robert Burch Click for a larger image and more information Keywords associated with this stock photo: somnathpur, keshava Vishnu temple, India, asia, Hoysala