temple tower

ziggurat

A Mesopotamian temple tower; from the end of the 3rd millennium B.C. on, ziggurats rose in three to seven stages, diminishing in area and often in height square (Sumer) or rectangular (Assyria), built of mud brick and faced with baked brick laid in bitumen.

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Tall colourful temple towers called gopurams dot the city's skyline.

The man who knew infinity

One interesting observation that Adam Hardy makes here is the relationship between the width of temple sanctuaries and the height of temple towers as prescribed numerically in hastas (cubits), though expressed geometrically as the diagonal of a square.

Theory and Practice of Temple Architecture in Medieval India: Bhoja's Samaranganasutradhara and the Bhojpur Line Drawings

Just six miles away is Tulum, where a Mayan temple towers over a beautiful beach.