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April 18 20222022-04-18Night photograph of a KAILASA centre facade in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, with a reddish-brown building and a banner reading kailasa madurai in English and Tamil. Above, a lit glass display case holds gold-coloured deity murti and figures, including a seated deity with lion-like figures. Below, a golden altar stands at the entrance, with a small screen showing a face. Several people gather: a bare-chested man in a white dhoti and a few white-clad priests with shaved heads and tied hair work at a golden counter, and women in yellow and blue saris and a young girl with flowers in her hair stand nearby. A timestamp reads 16-Apr-2022 8:10:44 PM, Amman Sannathi Street, Madurai Main, Madurai, Tamil Nadu.2022-04-05 +1 copiesPhotograph of an outdoor temple-street entrance decorated with bunches of green bananas, banana leaves and hanging mango-leaf strings. A yellow banner with Tamil script hangs above a red doorway. Several people in white dhoti-style clothing and white hairnets or caps prepare food on a table: a bare-chested older man with rudraksha beads and a red-orange cloth, a bearded man in white, and a woman in a yellow blouse with white flowers in her hair and an orange shawl. A uniformed police officer stands at left. A timestamp reads 15-Apr-2022 1:43:00 PM, 96 Amman Sannathi Street, Madurai Main, Madurai, Tamil Nadu.2022-04-18A street-side annadanam food distribution on East Chitrai Street in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, under a timestamp reading 15-Apr-2022 7:53:08 AM. Several volunteers in white dhotis with gold borders and white head coverings stand behind a long steel serving counter, ladling food onto plates held out by devotees. Bare-chested men in white dhotis serve, while a woman in a white sari with a gold border serves from the left. Uniformed police officers in khaki and white caps stand among the crowd, and a woman in a blue sari and a girl in orange stand in line. Green mango-leaf festoons hang overhead beside a glass storefront, and shuttered shops line the street.2022-04-18April 12 20242024-04-12Photo 99176052022-08-23 +1 copiesA dense crowd of devotees fills a narrow temple street, many in white dhotis and shirts, others in pink and blue saris and salwar. In the centre a man in a white shirt with a rudraksha mala looks ahead among the press. Behind the crowd a golden ceremonial ratha or palanquin, adorned with a bull figure and a colourful canopy, is carried past banana trees and a temple gopuram. Uniformed police officers and orange-robed sadhus are visible among the people. The scene conveys a festival procession at a South Indian temple.2011-12-20April 18 20222022-04-18Photo 11687775 +2 copiesNight street photograph of a crowded market lane outside the KAILASA MADURAI storefront. A large crowd of men, many in white shirts and dhotis, presses forward at the lower right and centre. On the left a red-and-green umbrella shades a decorated stand with flower garlands. The shop fascia reads 'kailasa madurai' in Latin and Tamil script, with a portrait of a smiling figure in saffron robes and turban beside a deity image. Inside the shop, a golden deity murti sits under a gilded arch with a metal framed doorway. Neighbouring shops advertise Sankar Metals Vessels Sales and another Tamil-language business. Strings of lights hang from the upper facade.Photo 82906592022-04-05 +1 copiesEvening photograph of the KAILASA Madurai storefront with a large illuminated sign reading "கைலாசா மதுரை" and "kailasa madurai" above the entrance. The sign shows a golden deity image at left and, at right, a portrait labelled with a figure in saffron and orange robes with an orange turban and long hair, smiling. Through the open shutter doors, a golden deity murti adorned with garlands is visible. In the foreground, several people walk past a food counter with steel trays: a man in a pink t-shirt at left, a blurred man in the foreground, a woman in a red blouse with a white sari and red border, a woman in white with a braid, and a man in a light blue shirt near the doorway. A timestamp reads 22 Dec 2025 8:03:10 pm, Annadanam, #Dinner Full #Kailasa Madurai.2025-01-11