Did ancient temple builders have the sacred geometrical like template for temples?

I am wondering if there is some kind of universal template of sacred geometry that has been handed down from temple builder to temple builder from generation to generation in the form of sacred number and symmetry and alignment representing order and perfection.

If Temple builders had a template for temple building. How was it being communicated across culture to culture or how was it preserved? Was it through parable or allegory? Do the sacred numbers of the temples and all the other sacred geometry basically for the temple builders to apply the measurements and angles for the all the temples through out the world and trying to make the temples and the planets and the stars being analogous to the astronomical cosmological alignments of celestial orbits?