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Exterior entrance of a whitewashed temple-style building with yellow pillars and red trim. Above the doorway is a green signboard in Tamil reading 'தொண்டை மண்டல ஆதீனம்' and 'ஞானப்பிரகாச மடம்' with the address '32-C/57 Aparamasivam Street, Chennai Kanchipuram'; the sign shows a Shivalingam flanked by two recumbent bulls. Carved stone figures and a sculpted nandi appear on the roof parapet. Two people are partly visible at the lower right edge of the frame, one wearing an orange garment and a rudraksha-style necklace.

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March 01 20182018-03-01Photo 11716279Kailasa Paramparagatha Kanchee Kailasa SarvajnapeethamExterior of a small temple building with white walls, yellow-barred windows and a blue-painted plinth. Two painted female figures flank the entrance: one in green sari holding a pot-like object, the other in orange sari. Ornate golden cornice above with colourful carved decoration. Footwear rests on the steps. Two men in white dhotis stand near the left side in shade of a large tree. Tamil signage above the doorway.2012-07-08A photograph of a two-storey temple building with grey pillars carved with figures, cream upper walls with small framed windows, and a white tiered shikhara-style tower on the roof. A blue-roofed structure stands at the left edge. In the foreground, a banner in Tamil and English is hung on a metal railing at the entrance, with a painted image of a deity on a blue panel beside it. No people are clearly visible apart from a partial figure at the bottom right corner.2009-08-08January 12 20072007-01-12October 27 20062006-10-27Photograph of the entrance to a temple shrine with steps leading up to closed yellow folding gates. Above the gates a blue signboard in Tamil reads Shakti Vinayagar Alayam, with a deity image at its left and a small framed picture on the wall. Painted flower bouquets decorate the blue walls beside the gates, a colourful lotus-like rosette hangs under the ceiling, and a small bell hangs at the threshold. No people are visible.2009-08-08A temple gateway of a Mangalambika/Mangalaiyamman shrine with a colourful tiered gopuram-style roof crowned by painted deity figures and lions. A printed banner above the entrance reads a Tamil dedication to Arulmigu Mangalaiyamman Thirukkoyil. Standing female figures in green and red flank the doorway. To the right a black board carries a yellow poster with a small photo of a bald man in white, with Tamil text. In the foreground a crowd of about ten people sits and stands, including older women in saris, a woman in blue, and men in shirts. No deity is named in this frame beyond the temple banner.2006-11-01January 21 20102010-01-21Photograph of the front facade of a yellow-orange building bearing the Tamil sign for a person Aranmanai, with red-framed windows. Below is a dark banner with a painted portrait labelled "Nithyananda Dhyanapeedam" showing a smiling woman with dark hair, red bindi, orange garment and rudraksha-style beads; beside her is a painted deity image of a goddess seated with attendants. The banner's Tamil text reads a dhyanam and dhyana chikitsa centre message. The painted figure in the portrait is a depiction, not a physical person in the scene, and no people are physically present.February 02 20092009-02-02