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A photograph in a stone temple corridor with carved pillars on both sides. A banner reads Ammani Amman Gopuram, with a loudspeaker mounted above the entrance. On the right, a man in a white shirt and white dhoti, with a red tilak on his forehead and wooden rudraksha malas around his neck, stands close to the camera with palms pressed together. Beside him, another man in white with palms folded stands near a row of women in white sarees with yellow borders and yellow shawls, lined up along the left wall in namaskar. Further back, more white-clad devotees stand in a line leading toward the gopuram gateway.

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January 08 20102010-01-08A photograph of a crowd walking through a stone temple gateway beneath a yellow banner reading Ammani Amman Gopuram. Several men in saffron or orange robes walk in the foreground, including a bearded older man in orange holding a small booklet and a man in orange with a sash and crossed-shoulder cloth beside a man in white. Others in white dhotis and shirts, women in white saris with yellow or red borders, and a woman in orange with a garland are visible. Stone walls carved with pillar motifs frame the passage. The crowd moves toward the inner temple court.2009-08-06A photograph of the ornately carved stone entrance of a South Indian temple gopuram passage, with a orange banner reading AMMANI AMMAN GOPURAM hung across the carved gateway. A large crowd of devotees fills the courtyard in front: women in saris and white and orange garments, and men in white dhotis and shirts, some in saffron-orange robes. A man in white kneels on the stone floor near yellow crowd-control barriers, and a loudspeaker hangs above the gate. Several people in the crowd hold cameras or phones.2010-01-08August 06 20092009-08-06Crowded photo at a temple entrance gate with a stone carved wall on the right. A man in the centre wears a saffron/orange robe, a long gold-coloured necklace of beads and a bright orange shawl, smiling and raising his palms in greeting; he has long dark swept-back hair and a small white mark on his forehead. Around him many devotees crowd forward: men in white dhotis and white shirts, a bald man with a saffron robe and white forehead band, and women in orange and yellow saris and yellow shawls. A man in white with glasses and a white-and-red forehead mark stands in the lower right foreground, and a man in a white shirt with glasses is at the lower left. The people are walking through the gate in a procession-like crowd.2010-01-08A crowded temple corridor with ornately carved grey stone pillars and brackets on the left and right. Devotees queue closely in a long line through the passage. A man in a white kurta wears a yellow shawl draped over his shoulders and rudraksha beads, standing near the left. A woman with glasses wears a white sari with a gold border and a mala. Bare-chested men in dhotis stand in the line, and women wear red, blue and pink saris with jasmine flowers in their hair.2009-07-13Photograph of a crowd at a temple entrance with a carved stone pillar on the right and iron gates behind. In the foreground at left, a smiling person with long dark hair wears an orange-saffron robe and a long gold bead necklace. Beside and behind them, devotees in orange-saffron and yellow-and-white garments press forward, some with orange shawls. A uniformed police officer in a dark cap and khaki shirt stands at right, and a man in a white shirt with glasses and a forehead tilak walks in the middle. Several women in white and yellow saris and a man in orange cloth with tilak are visible, and a crowd of roughly thirty to forty people fills the frame.2010-01-08Crowd moving through a stone temple entrance with carved sculptural panels and a relief on the right wall. In the foreground a man with long dark hair wears an orange saffron robe, a long gold necklace and a red bindi, smiling and raising his hand in greeting. Around him devotees in orange, yellow and white clothing press forward, several with palms joined in namaste; a girl in a teal top stands among them. A man in white with a vertical tilak and glasses is in the lower foreground. Behind them women in saris, a bare-headed devotee in orange, and a few people in white stand near a gate with a signboard reading in Tamil.2010-01-082009-GLIMPSES-OF-VARIOUS-EVENTSJuly 13 20092009-07-13August 02 20082008-08-02August 06 20092009-08-06