Temple & Mandir Facade Lighting

Warm white at 3000K for everyday lighting it flatters sandstone, granite, marble and lime plaster, and carries the warmth people associate with a temple. Cool white makes stone look grey and institutional. RGB colour is best kept for festivals like Mahashivratri, Janmashtami, Navratri and Diwali rather than run every night.

Because flood lights erase shadows. A wide beam aimed at carved stone from a distance lights every surface equally, so the carving loses its relief and reads as flat texture. Carved surfaces need narrow-beam fixtures placed close to the wall a technique called grazing so each edge casts its own small shadow.

Use 7 narrow-beam column lights at the base of the tower, aimed straight up. The narrow beam is essential a wide beam scatters most of its light into the sky before reaching the top. On a tall shikhara, add a second tier of fixtures partway up so the peak is as bright as the base.

It depends on the size and the number of elements. As working ratios: one column light per pillar face, burial lights 1 to 1.5 m apart along the plinth, wall washers butted end to end along feature walls, one step light per 1.5 m of stair width. A modest neighbourhood temple usually needs 20 to 40 fixtures; a large complex runs into the hundreds.

Grazing places the fixture 150 to 300 mm from the wall so light skims parallel to the surface, making every carving cast a shadow and appear in relief. Flooding places a wide-beam fixture further away, hitting the surface straight on and flattening the detail. Graze carved stone; flood only the compound and parking.

The in-ground and near-ground fixtures are IP68, rated for continuous submersion rather than just rain. That matters in a temple compound, where paving pools during monsoon and abhishekam and cleaning water runs across the plinth. Compound flood lights are IP65, which is correct for wall and pole mounting.

Yes. RGB burial lights and the RGB wall washer come with remotes for straightforward colour switching. The DMX RGBW washer allows programmed scenes across multiple fixtures useful for a temple that wants distinct settings for different festivals. The usual approach is warm gold as the everyday default with colour available on occasion.

A typical 30-fixture LED scheme draws around 500 watts total. Running dusk to dawn, that's roughly 165 units a month, or about 1,300 at 8 a unit. For comparison, four old 400W halogen floods alone draw 1,600 watts over three times the consumption for worse-looking light.

Yes, and it should be planned that way. Burial lights in the surrounding paving and spike lights in planting beds achieve most of the effect without touching the structure. Where fixtures must attach, fix into mortar joints rather than carved stone, run cable along paving edges rather than chasing masonry, and keep the whole installation reversible. For protected monuments, check whether ASI or state archaeology permissions apply before starting.

With a day/night photocell sensor, yes it switches at dusk and dawn automatically, with no daily intervention from the committee. A digital timer is the alternative where the temple wants the display off at a fixed hour. Keep facade, compound and festival circuits on separate switches so they can be operated independently.

Some do. The standard 18W and 36W warm white washers, the visor model and the RGB remote model run direct from 220V mains. The linkable washer, the DMX RGBW washer and the flexible cuttable roll need a 24V DC power supply, sold separately one 24V 16A unit powers up to eight bars or around 13 m of flexible roll.

Burial lights sit flush in hard surfaces the paved plinth, the parikrama path, the courtyard so devotees walk over them safely and nothing protrudes. Spike lights stake into soil in the garden and can be re-aimed as planting grows. Use burial on paving, spike in beds.

Yes. The technique is architectural, not denominational narrow beams to reveal carving, warm light on stone, uplighting at the plinth, controlled colour for festival occasions. The zones change with the building's form, but the fixtures and the approach are the same.

Yes. Temple projects are almost always 20-plus fixtures and we quote at project pricing with GST invoicing for the trust's records. Send elevation photographs, the stone type and your festival colour requirement, and we'll return a fixture list with positions.

Yes. Photographs are more useful than dimensions for this category send front and side elevations, plus a night photograph if any lighting already exists. We'll come back with which fixture goes where, how many, and what it will draw. WhatsApp is the fastest route.