The whole deal with removing shoes and socks before entering a temple, has nothing to do with religion – its a tradition thing.
The issue with this, is that we have 42C in the shade, and that means that the brick floors – who are in the sun – holds aprox 10000C and burns of Norwegian feet fast.
We have walked around complaining amongs ourself about this for time time. And today – our guide just broefly mentioned – walk on the white marble tiles.. and by god, yes – they are cooler. We just never thougt about it.. happy days!
Feet and shies nevertheless fucked after a couple days pagodaing – but not that burnt anymore.