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April 29 20182018-04-29April 29 20182018-04-29 +1 copiesApril 29 20182018-04-29 +1 copiesAugust 08 20092009-08-08A weathered building entrance with an orange-framed double door with barred glass panels, flanked by two painted murals of four-armed deities standing on blue pedestals. Each figure wears a tall conical crown, gold necklaces and a dhoti, one green and one pink, holding a rudraksha-like disc and a small fish-shaped object with raised hands, and a long staff. Grey plaster walls are peeling, and a loudspeaker sits above the door beneath a fluorescent tube. No people are visible.2018-04-29Empty interior courtyard of a South Indian temple with blue-painted pillars and a white marble floor. A steep stone staircase with a metal railing rises at left toward a closed yellow grille gate. Smaller blue shrines with painted tops and a tiled roof stand in the open court, with a palm tree and a multicoloured gopuram-style shrine visible at right. Two metal stands sit on the floor, a ceiling fan hangs overhead, and no people are visible.2009-08-08A small roofed shrine in a dim courtyard of a temple-like building. At the centre is a colourful painted gopuram-style niche enshrining a Ganesha murti with an elephant head, seated and painted in red and green tones. Below it, a dark Shiva lingam wrapped in a white cloth and decorated with white flowers sits on a raised platform. A yellow-walled alcove with a stone counter and clay pots is visible to the left, and an orange pot stands at right. No people are present.2014-07-01April 29 20182018-04-29Night view of a small temple shrine with a blue-and-orange facade, dark stone pillars and a decorative frieze of painted figures along the wall. A wide roof is topped with painted deity figures and a bull statue beneath leafy tree branches. Metal railings enclose the front, with cloth hanging on them, and a small separate shrine stands to the right. The courtyard is wet and empty of people.2008-08-01A photo of a small open-sided temple shrine under a corrugated metal roof, with a stone platform holding a carved stone shrine canopy and a dark deity murti partly visible behind it. Three people stand on the paved floor: a woman in an orange-red sari with a dark handbag, and two men, one in a dark top and one in a reddish-orange cloth, performing a puja near the shrine with a lamp or offering. Yellow flower garlands hang on a pillar at left, and a white horse figure is visible at the upper left edge. Wet patches mark the stone floor, and blue doors stand behind the shrine.2021-12-28A small turquoise shrine box with yellow-and-red trim and two barred wooden doors, padlocked shut, sits against a red and white striped wall in a covered hall. Inside the grille is a deity murti, and a dark carved item rests on top of the shrine. Two tall dark stone lingams stand to the right, each marked with red and orange tilak spots. Bamboo poles and string support the roof, and paper streamers hang nearby. No people are visible.2012-07-08October 25 20122012-10-25