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A wide elevated view over a dense town of low rooftops, trees and small concrete buildings toward a tall white gopuram of a Hindu temple at the centre, with several smaller white and grey gopurams visible on the horizon under a pale hazy sky. Green foliage fills the left foreground and rocky outcrop appears at the lower right. No people are visible in the scene.2011-05-17June 03 20122012-06-03Elevated view over a dense Indian town toward a tall, tiered South Indian temple gopuram covered in carved stone figures, rising above low buildings, palm trees and green trees. Hazy sky and distant hills frame the scene. A beige wall edge runs down the right side. No people are visible.A photograph of a large gopuram, the tiered stone gateway tower of a South Indian temple, rising in pale grey stucco with rows of sculpted figures and a crown of finials at the top. Behind it are soft green hills and a hazy sky, and in the foreground a large rounded brown boulder and scrubby green plants frame the view over low rooftops of cream and yellow houses. No people are visible in the scene.May 20 1989May 20 1989A wide daytime photograph taken from a rocky, scrub-covered hillside looking over a dense town of low buildings toward two tall gopuram towers of a temple complex on the right, one with tiers of painted sculpture, with another gopuram on the left. Bushes, small trees and bare red earth sit in the foreground, and a hazy pale sky with scattered clouds spreads above the flat horizon. No people are visible.Aerial photograph of the Arunachaleswara temple complex in Tiruvannamalai, showing a tall, white, tiered gopuram (gateway tower) carved with rows of sculpted figures rising above a walled enclosure. Smaller gopuram towers stand in front of it, surrounded by dense urban rooftops, palm trees and green trees, with a hillside visible in the distance. No people are visible. A purple logo appears at upper left.2008-08-03Elevated view over a dense town of low concrete houses and trees toward three tall South Indian temple gopurams, the central one a large tiered tower with carved figures, flanked by two smaller gopurams. Mountains rise in the hazy distance. In the foreground, rough boulders, scrubby green shrubs, dry red earth and clusters of yellow flowers sit on a hillside. No people are visible.September 23 20062006-09-23May 20 1989May 17 20112011-05-17