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Street-level photograph of the entrance to the Madurai Aadheenam, a stone-fronted gateway with a white sign reading மதுரை ஆதீனம் and MADURAIAADHEENAM above an open doorway. Blue-painted metal gates stand open, and a man in a light shirt and dark trousers stands on the threshold while another man in a white cap crouches beside him. Carved stone deities in niches flank the sign, and motorbikes are parked on the steps. Shops with colourful signage line both sides, including a green-canopied storefront.

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April 11 20122012-04-11April 11 20122012-04-11Street photograph of the facade of the Madurai Aadheenam building with its ornate pale-yellow stucco, arched niches and sculpted deity figures, including a multi-armed goddess and a figure on a bull over the entrance. A blue-gated doorway below a signboard reading Madurai Aadheenam leads inside. In front, several motorcycles and scooters are parked on a dusty street beside shops selling jewellery, and a blurred motorcyclist in a helmet passes in the foreground. A man in a white shirt stands in the doorway holding a camera. Two other people are partly visible at the left edge, one in a red shirt and a head wrap.2012-04-11Photo 11742216Facade of the Madurai Aadheenam building, a multi-storey structure with a colourful decorated gopuram-style upper tier. A gold-lettered signboard reads MADURAI AADHEENAM in Tamil and English, hung with green leaf strands. Above the entrance, painted sculptural niches show deity murtis including a seated figure on a white bull and a multi-armed deity beside it, with peacock and lion figures in the ornamentation. Shop signs and wires run across the street frontage. No people are visible.2012-06-04June 04 20122012-06-04June 04 20122012-06-04June 05 20122012-06-05 +1 copiesMay 31 20122012-05-31July 14 20092009-07-14A photograph taken at dusk inside a stone temple corridor with pink-sandstone pillars carved with floral and figural motifs. Above the entrance arch sits a painted deity panel with several figures. Men in white dhotis and shirts, one in a blue shirt, walk and stand in the foreground, while a man in a checked shirt and others move through the passage. Shops with yellow STD signs and hanging signboards line the right side. Beyond an orange iron gate, a crowd gathers inside the shrine area with lights glowing.2006-10-24June 04 20122012-06-04