As human beings began to fear and respect the forces of nature, they also started worshipping them. Man personified these forces so that the concept of ‘god’ took form in people’s minds. The gods in their human forms came to be housed as idols in structures called temples.The temples in India developed in every region of the country, often the geographical, climatic, ethnic, racial, historical and linguistic aspects of the region had a greater part to play in shaping the style of the temples in India