This temple dedicated to Vaishnava worship is sandhara temple of the panchayatana (five-shrined) variety and is the earliest temple of Khajuraho with all the principal elements of the developed temple type, viz. entrance-porch, mandapa, maha-mandapa with transepts, vestibule and sanctum with an ambulatory and three transepts.

This is the only temple which preserves intact all the subsidiary shrines and the jagati (platform) with its mouldings and friezes, the latter showing a moving pageant of hunting and battle-scenes, processions of elephants , horses and soldiers and miscellaneous representations, including domestic and erotic scenes. It still displays the largest number of fine apsaras brackets , which form a notable features of the interior decoration of the Khajuraho temples.

The Chausath-yogini temple , made of a coarse granite is the earliest building at Khajuraho and is situated on a low granite outcrop to the south-west of the shiva-sagar tank. The temple has an exceptional plan and design. Standing on a lofty (5.4 metres high) platform, it is an open-air quadrangular (31.4 m by 18.3 m) structure of sixty -seven peripheral shrines, of which only thirty-five have now survived.

The shrines are tiny cells, each entered by a small doorway, and are severely plain and roofed by a curvilinear sikhara of an elementary form. The shrine in the back wall, facing the entrance, is the largest and constitutes the main sanctum. A few simple mouldings on the façade are all the decoration that the temple displays, but in spite of its uncouth appearance and rugged bareness, it possesses an elemental strength and reveals some basic traits of the Khajuraho style, such as a lofty platform and a jangha (wall ) divided into two registers.
Of all the yogini temples in India, this is the most primitive in contruction and unique in being quadrangular and not circular on plan. Cunningham surmised the existence of a shrine at the center of the courtyard, but excavation revealed no such evidence.

This temple, situated immediately to the south-west of the Visvanatha, is a heavily-restored small shrine, originally comprising a sanctum and porch. The porch is completely lost and of the sanctum, only the plinth has survived.
The doorway belongs to a Vaishnava shrine as is indicated by a Vishnu figure on the middle of the lintel, while the image in the sanctum represents Gauri with the godha (iguana) as her vehicle. Near it , facing the main road , is a hundred-year old temple built by a Maharaja of Chhatarpur.