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A crowded temple interior viewed through a stone-pillared corridor. Many men in white dhotis and white shirts, some in pale shirts and checked shirts, stand and move among stone columns. Women in colourful saris, including a woman in green and gold at right, are visible. A flight of steps leads into the darker inner hall beyond. Signs on the walls are in Tamil script with an arrow pointing toward a darshan route. The scene conveys a busy pilgrimage queue at a South Indian temple.

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A photograph of a crowd gathered in a stone temple courtyard. Many men in white dhotis and white shirts stand among the pillars of a stone colonnade with carved capitals and a painted teal and red roof trim. A man in a light tan shirt and a man in white stand near the centre-right. Women in red and pink saris are visible in the background. A loudspeaker is mounted on a pillar at left.

Photograph inside a South Indian temple corridor with a stone pillared ceiling and tube lights. A queue of devotees moves toward a shrine doorway framed by a painted arch with rearing lion-like figures and a deity murti, flanked by brass lamps. Several men in white dhotis and orange shawls walk in the line, and a shaved-headed man in a white dhoti stands in the foreground beside metal railings. A blue signboard in Tamil lists darshan and abhishekam timings. Partial figures and a hand holding a camera appear at the right edge.

July 30 2008

Interior of a South Indian temple corridor at Tiruchendur Subramaniya Swami temple, with carved stone pillars and a ceiling with carved brackets. A row of people in orange and saffron clothing, several with long dark hair, walks toward a shrine arch decorated with white horse-like figures and a deity murti in the centre. Devotees in white dhotis and bare-chested priests stand at the metal barriers in the foreground. A blue and white sign at right gives darshan information. Fluorescent tube lights run along the ceiling.

August 01 2009 - Kalpataru, Thiruvanaikaval, India

A dense crowd of devotees fills a warm-lit stone temple corridor with carved pillars and wooden panels. Many people press forward toward an inner doorway, some with hands folded in prayer. A man in a red shirt and a woman in a pink-and-white striped top stand near the centre, a girl in red looks toward the camera, and women wear saffron and red saris with flowers in their hair. A few men in white shirts stand among them. Framed deity pictures hang on the walls and a large brass vessel sits on the floor. No clearly identifiable presiding figure is visible in the foreground.

A long, covered temple corridor lined with carved white pillars and shops selling religious goods. Along the left and right walls, stalls display framed deity pictures, calendars, bangles and small decorative items. Several people walk along the central pathway: elderly women in white saris, a woman in a blue sari, and men in white dhotis, some wearing orange or saffron shawls. Two men in white shirts stand in the right foreground, partly visible. Signboards in Tamil script hang above the shops. The scene looks like a busy temple street or prakaram passage.

April 28 2018

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Interior of a stone temple corridor with rows of heavy carved pillars and a low dark ceiling lit by tube lights and hanging lamps. A woman in a red and pink sari stands at left beside a tray of sweets. A man in a white shirt and white dhoti walks away from the camera toward the sanctum, and several men in white dhotis move through the hall. A steel vessel stands at right and a large green-and-yellow signboard with Tamil text hangs on the left wall. Some men appear to be priests. No identifiable a person candidate is visible in the scene.

Photograph of a stone temple entrance with a curved grey canopy over the steps leading up to an ornate gopuram-style doorway. Several people walk up and down the steps: a woman in an orange sari and a man in white dhoti and shirt descend, a man in red shirt and white dhoti walks up, and an elderly woman in a white sari with folded hands stands in the foreground. Blue informational signboards with text stand at the steps, and a carved deity panel with a blue background appears at the upper right.