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Exterior entrance of a whitewashed temple-style building with yellow pillars and red trim. Above the doorway is a green signboard in Tamil reading 'தொண்டை மண்டல ஆதீனம்' and 'ஞானப்பிரகாச மடம்' with the address '32-C/57 Aparamasivam Street, Chennai Kanchipuram'; the sign shows a Shivalingam flanked by two recumbent bulls. Carved stone figures and a sculpted nandi appear on the roof parapet. Two people are partly visible at the lower right edge of the frame, one wearing an orange garment and a rudraksha-style necklace.2018-03-01 +2 copiesA crowd of men in white shirts and dhotis presses around the entrance of a temple with weathered stone pillars. Men on either side include one with a white sacred ash line and red dot on the forehead and another in a white shirt with an orange shawl. Above them a red banner reads a Tamil temple name, and two large posters show a saffron-clad figure with mala beads. Blue-green temple pillars frame the doorway behind the crowd.2007-01-12July 01 20142014-07-01A photograph at a temple doorway with a blue Tamil-script sign reading the name of a temple shrine above an ornate carved silver-toned door frame. On the left, a woman in an orange sleeveless top with a yellow flower garland stands with palms pressed together in namaskar, head bowed. In the centre-right, a bearded man with a sandalwood-and-kumkum forehead mark and a red thread around his neck stands by the wooden door, while a bare-chested man with a shaved head and vibhuti marks is partly visible at the right edge. A bell hangs from the ceiling near a painted deity figure. Watermarked copyright text overlays the lower right.2011-12-21January 12 20072007-01-12July 29 20082008-07-29A temple gateway of a Mangalambika/Mangalaiyamman shrine with a colourful tiered gopuram-style roof crowned by painted deity figures and lions. A printed banner above the entrance reads a Tamil dedication to Arulmigu Mangalaiyamman Thirukkoyil. Standing female figures in green and red flank the doorway. To the right a black board carries a yellow poster with a small photo of a bald man in white, with Tamil text. In the foreground a crowd of about ten people sits and stands, including older women in saris, a woman in blue, and men in shirts. No deity is named in this frame beyond the temple banner.2006-11-01Photograph inside a temple corridor at night. A doorway with a red-and-white pillared frame carries a sign reading "Aruliya Kedhara Mahareeshwarar" (per the signboard), with a lit inner shrine and deity murti visible beyond. Foreground: a man with long dreadlocks wears a white-and-gold-bordered dhoti and stands at left. A central figure with long dreadlocks and white ash stripes across the forehead and bare chest wears an orange saffron cloth and a red-beaded necklace; he stands near a pillar with a wall niche. Another man, seen from behind, wears a large garland of yellow and white flowers over green leaves. A wall poster and a small framed notice are on the wall, and a clock hangs at top left.2018-01-16May 18 20122012-05-18 +1 copiesJanuary 12 20072007-01-12January 16 20182018-01-16July 29 20082008-07-29