They are built in the Gurjara Pratihara style of temple architecture dated to the tenth century CE and today show various degree of preservation, decay and destruction.

characterised "the creations of Badoli as the most perfect of their age that he had encountered within that part of the country and, in their own peculiar style.

The complex is located close to the rocky bank of the Chambal River, 45 kilometres (28 mi) south east of Kota, on the outer limits of Rawatbhata City.

Set around a natural fountain, they are positioned in two zones in the midst of a forest containing peepal, kadamba, mango, and jamun trees.

[2][3][5] Though the history of the Baroli Temples is not very clear,[6] they are reported to have been built during the Gurjara-Pratihara Empire in the 10th–11th centuries.

[1][5] A carved stone image of the god Nataraja was stolen from the Baroli temple complex in 1998.

[5] The main temple structure comprises the sanctum (garbhagriha) and the mukhamandapa, a front mandapa or hall.

[1] Dated to the early 10th century, it is an intact structure that has the god Shiva depicted in the form of five lingas.

One linga appears like an inverted ghata or pot, and hence the name was given to the temple of "Ghateshwara" (pot-Lord), while "Mahadeva" is a term for Shiva.

The pilasters, which are part of the sanctum wall, project from the wallby two-thirds of its width, and have niches encased with sculptures.

The niches inside the temple are decorated with elegantly carved images of Andhakantaka (shiva slaying the demon Andhaka), Nataraja (Shiva as the Lord of dance) and the goddess Chamunda; similar images are also carved on the lintel above the entrance door.

The large pillared hall is built over a raised platform called a pitha, which has decorative carvings.

[12] This Shiva temple, also dated to the 10th century, has a sanctum with the divine linga in the middle of the sacred tank.

[13] The 10th-century Vamanavatar temple is a small shrine dedicated to a four-armed image of Vamana, the fifth avatar of the god Vishnu.

A carved Parvati image occupies the central niche in the sukanasa (portion of the pinnacle over the portico).