In classical architecture, hypaethral describes a building with no roof and with columns forming a partial wall. The term originates from Latin hypaethrus...

also known as Pharaoh's Bed (Arabic: سرير فرعون) by the locals, is a hypaethral temple currently located on Agilkia Island in southern Egypt. The unfinished...

goddess-like figures. Hirapur's yogini temple is a tantric shrine, with hypaethral (roofless) architecture as tantric prayer rituals involve worshipping...

The Yogini temples of India are 9th to 12th century roofless hypaethral shrines to the yoginis, female masters of yoga in Hindu tantra, broadly equated...

Shiva. The Yogini shrines are usually circular enclosures, and they are hypaethral, open to the sky, unlike most Indian temples. This is because they were...

temples at other places, it has a rectangular plan, but like them it is hypaethral, open to the air. As part of the Khajuraho Group of Monuments, and because...

or decorum required for temples of Jupiter Tonans, that they are to be hypaethral or open to the sky. The 1st century poet Lucan also mentions the Temple...

The Hypaethral Temple, Philae, by Francis Frith, 1857; from the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland....

attained enlightenment) was erected by Asoka himself. This Temple is hypaethral. Here the sanctity of the tree is indicated by umbrellas and garlands...

and elaborate carvings that attract scholarly attention. Major extant hypaethral (open air) temples of the 64 yoginis (Chausathi Jogan) in India built...