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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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May 31 20122012-05-31 +1 copiesPhotograph 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.2018-03-17A 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.2007-01-12Interior 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.2018-03-17August 01 2009 - Kalpataru, Thiruvanaikaval, India2009-08-01A photograph of a crowd walking through a stone temple colonnade with carved pillars and a dark doorway opening onto a distant courtyard. In the centre, a man in an orange turban and saffron robe, wearing a long garland of yellow and white flowers and a rudraksha-style bead necklace, walks with palms pressed together in greeting. Around him, devotees in white dhotis and white shirts, a woman in a blue sari with yellow blouse, and a bare-chested man in orange dhoti and bead mala move through the procession. Loudspeakers are mounted on the pillars. The visible people number more than twenty.2006-09-24July 30 20082008-07-30May 31 20122012-05-31Interior hall of a stone temple with carved pillars, ornate brackets and a dark sanctum entrance beyond. Steel vessels and yellow containers stand on the grey granite floor near the central pillars. A bare-chested man in a white dhoti and checked lungi stands at the front centre, facing the shrine. Other devotees walk around the hall: a woman in a blue sari on the left, a man in white on the left, and two shirtless men in green lungis on the right. Framed deity pictures hang on the pillars. Blue and white signboards line the left wall.2018-03-17May 07 20122012-05-07A crowd of devotees descends a stone staircase at a South Indian temple entrance with a white gopuram covered in sculpted figures behind it. Men in white dhotis and white kurtas, many wearing rudraksha-style beaded necklaces, walk down the steps. Several figures in saffron and orange robes move in the middle of the group, and a man in an orange shawl stands near the top. A uniformed police officer in khaki stands at the right edge, and a yellow gate and carved stone pillars frame the left side. A large poster hangs on the gopuram wall above the gateway.2006-09-24A crowded temple corridor at a stone-pillared Indian temple, with a dense flow of devotees descending and moving along a staircase. A man in white shirt and dark trousers with a blue-and-white shawl walks down the steps holding a folded paper. Nearby, a group of men in white dhotis and a woman in a sari carry a brass-coloured ceremonial pot and garlanded objects. In the centre, a figure in saffron-orange robes with a rudraksha mala and gold necklace walks among the group, though the face is not clearly distinguishable. Market stalls and a metal railing line the corridor; a stone elephant sculpture sits beside a ticket or counter booth, and a woman in a green sari sits on the lower right.2012-05-07