Unlike the Yogini 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 of its unique Chandela architecture, the temple was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1986.

[4] Ruins of Yogini temples have been found at other places in and around the territory formerly ruled by the Chandelas or their feudatories, including Badoh, Bhedaghat Dudahi, Lokhari, Hinglajgarh, Mitaoli, Nareshwar, and Rikhiyan.

Only 35 of these 65 cells now survive;[3] each has a small doorway made of two squared granite pillars and a lintel stone, and a curvilinear tower roof.

There is no surviving trace of a central shrine, whether to Shiva or the Goddess, as found in other Yogini temples.

The image of Mahishamardini has one foot on a buffalo that she has defeated; she is holding its legs, and in two of her eight arms she wields a sword and shield.