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Photograph looking upward from beneath a large tree with dark spreading foliage in the upper left and a bare trunk at left, framing a tall ornately carved stone gopuram of a temple. Tiers of sculpted figures and niches rise to a pointed top against a pale blue sky with a faint moon. A smaller carved gopuram stands at right, and a low pinkish-walled temple structure is at lower left. No people are visible.

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September 4 1989 - earliest ever recorded public functionPhotograph looking up from below at a large banyan tree whose dark leaves and thick trunk frame the left side. Behind the branches rises a tall, tiered gopuram of pale stone, carved with many niches, figures and small domed shrine tops, set against a clear pale blue sky with a faint moon. A smaller carved shrine peak appears at the lower right edge. No people are visible in the scene.September 4 1989 - earliest ever recorded public functionSeptember 4 1989 - earliest ever recorded public functionJuly 08 20122012-07-08Photograph framed by the thick pale trunks of a large banyan tree, looking up through an arch of trunks toward a tall whitewashed temple gopuram covered in tiered rows of carved sculptures and niches. Green leaves hang across the upper frame, and pink flowering shrubs grow at the lower edge near the temple base against a pale blue sky. No people are visible.A photograph of a tall, white, heavily sculpted gopuram, the stepped entrance tower of a South Indian temple, rising against a pale grey sky. Its tiers are covered with rows of carved deities, figures and animal reliefs, with small doorways and niches in the lower sections. A palm frond stands at the left edge and leafy tree branches fill the right side. No people are visible, and no a person candidate appears in the frame.September 4 1989 - earliest ever recorded public functionA large photograph of a towering white gopuram, the multi-tiered entrance tower of a South Indian temple, seen through a framed archway with ornate red and cream carved pillars. The tower is densely covered with sculpted deities, figures and niches, with a small shrine and figures at its base and a rocky hill rising on the right. No people are visible in the photograph. Blue sky with thin clouds fills the background.2006-09-23July 08 20122012-07-08Photograph looking up at a tall, tiered gopuram temple tower in Tiruvannamalai, its pale stone surface densely carved with tiers of sculpted deity figures and niches. Green leaves of a tree frame the upper left and right, and a low stone compound wall runs along the lower left. Bushes and small trees fill the foreground. No people are visible.2012-07-08February 06 20172017-02-06 +1 copies