Such temples were built by a number different cultures and are distributed around the world including in India,[1] China, Egypt, Japan and Peru.

Among these old monuments is the Great Temple of Ramses at Abu Simbel,[7] and complexes built by the Fifth Dynasty, of which only two examples survive, that of Userkaf and of Niuserre.

[9] In 2006, archaeologists found ruins underneath a market in Cairo, which could possibly be the largest temple built by Ramesses II.

In Manipuri mythology, the sun god Korouhanba is the synonym of the Hindu deity Surya.

It was designed and built by William Chambers, who also planted a cedar tree next to the structure earlier, in 1725.