[Leica] Photos of a Temple

[mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope)]

Hi Jayanand,

what a fantastic place - talk about sensory overload!


Thanks for sharing.


Mark Pope,
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UK

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Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> I was in the temple town of Madurai a few days ago, if you can call a
> place with  2 million inhabitants a mere town, with a few hours free
> so I went to the monumental Meenakshi Sundareshwar temple there  where
> the god Siva (Sundareswar) and the goddess Meenakshi (Parvathi) are
> said to have wed, and around which the whole city has evolved. It is
> at the pinnacle of South Indian temple architecture, and is supposed
> to be 2500-3000 years old, though most of the temple buildings
> existent today date from the 11th to the 18th century. The whole
> temple complex is huge, around 45 acres, with the main temple itself
> measuring 254 by 237 metres, and has 12 huge goparams (temple towers).
> It had just been freshly painted and was nice and colourful! It was a
> very auspicious day and it was  quite crowded, so I kept a little away
> from the holiest spots. Anyway, a few pictures:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Madurai/
> 
> Comments & criticism, as always, welcome.
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
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