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ArchitectureMy Son Group B
My Son Group B is the example of the temple complex in Cham art. The temples inside the complex are normally arranged without the symmetry. Inside the complex there are the main tower, the subsidiary towers, rectangular temple, the gateway, the enclosure and the outside Mandapa.
ArchitectureMy Son B5
This temple is supposed to be one of the temples dedicated to Bhadreshvara, the most sacred Linga of Champa kingdom.
ArchitectureMy Son C1
My Son C1 is the main tower of My Son Group C and is the only main temple in Cham art which is of rectangular plan. The roof is of wagon-liked elongate roof. (called as Shala roof in South Indian terminology) As this temple is in rectangular plan, the longer side is punctuated by 7 pilasters (only 6 are visible as it is obscured by the central niche). The double-arched niche indicates the continuation from Dong Dzuong style but it is not elongated as that of Dong Dzoung. Insidethe niche there is the guarding holding club, the character of My Son style.
ArchitectureMy Son C1
My Son C1 is the main tower of the complex C and this tower is the only rectangular main tower with the wagon roof. (called as Śālā roof in South Indian term) The front hall or Maṇḍapa is also designed in the wagon-roof rectangular tower. The front hall is decorated with 5 pilasters and the door is decorated with the double-vase-liked column, typical to My Son A1 period.
ArchitectureDetails of upper mouldings: My Son C1
My Son C1 is the tower datable to My Son A1 period as the flute in the middle of the pilaster is continued up to the capital. The capital is complicated with the convex and concave mouldings, more complicated than the earlier-period ones. However, because the capital is lack of ornament, the temple seems to be unfinished.
ArchitectureMy Son D
My Son Group D comprises two rectangular buildings, D1 nd D2. These are the Mandapa outside the enclosure of My Son Group B and Group C. These Mandapa are rectangular in plan and were roofed with tiles, which are not survived nowadays. The walls are decorated with pilasters and niches and punctuated by the windows decorated with balustrades.
ArchitectureMy Son B1
My Son B1 is only tower in Cham art which is entirely built in stone. This is strongly different from the brick temple which is normal in Cham art. Unfortunatelym the tower B1 is already collapsed and only the base decorated with mouldings and the miniature temples still remains.
ArchitectureMy Son F
My sonF is one of the most ancient complexes at My Son. The decoration at this temple is similar to Indian and Khmer Pre Angkorian arts. This temple can be dated to the 7th-8th centuries A.D.
