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Photograph of a colourful South Indian temple gopuram with tiered sculpted figures, painted in red, green, white and gold, above a temple entrance decorated with banana stalks, flower strings and striped cloth canopy. A blue sign on the gopuram reads Om Namo Narayanaya. A crowd of men in white shirts and dhotis gathers near a silver vehicle with a red beacon light, and a uniformed police officer in khaki stands at right directing them. A green banner at right shows deity images and Tamil text.

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Photograph of a tall, colourfully painted South Indian temple gopuram rising above a cloth-canopied entrance. The tower is covered with stacked sculptures of deities and figures in red, green, yellow and white. A blue sign on the tower reads an invocation to Narayana. Below, a white canopy edged with red, green and blue stripes and flower-like medallions shelters the gate, decorated with banana-leaf and garland swags. A Vaishnava Vishnu-style emblem appears on a plaque. No people are visible.2012-05-31May 16 20122012-05-16May 16 20122012-05-16Photograph of a crowd gathered outside a richly painted gopuram-style temple gateway with carved deity figures in the arch and a blue sky above. In the foreground, a man in white shirt and trousers holds a tall silver ceremonial staff, and beside him a older man in white stands near a dark car with a red beacon light and a windscreen sticker reading VIP CAR PASS. A bearded man with bare upper body and sacred markings stands in the crowd. A multicoloured umbrella with tasselled edges is raised near the entrance, and a yellow-orange flag hangs at left. Devotees in white stand around the entrance as a procession forms beyond the gateway.2012-06-05Photograph of a brightly painted multi-tiered gopuram temple tower in Kanjanur, with a stone-pillared entrance beneath it and a relief of a deity on a bull above the doorway. In front, a crowd of men in white dhotis and shirts stands and walks in the open courtyard. On the left, a uniformed police officer in a cap raises an ornate red and green umbrella. In the foreground, a bare-headed woman wears an orange shawl over white and an older man in white with a maroon shawl walks past. Several other people stand near the temple entrance.2012-05-16A photograph of a tall, richly painted South Indian gopuram temple tower with many tiers of carved deity and mythological figures in red, blue, yellow and green. A pale cream stone entrance gate sits at the base, with a sign reading Arulmigu Kodaikalaiyappa... style Tamil lettering above the doorway. Several people in white dhotis and colourful saris walk along the street in front, a few devotees and passers-by visible, and a yellow auto-rickshaw sits at the right edge. A striped red-and-white awning and a banner are visible near the left. A cream dome-topped shrine stands to the left of the tower.2006-10-22May 16 20122012-05-16May 16 20122012-05-16 +1 copiesPhoto 11730191A colourful gopuram temple tower with tiers of painted deity sculptures rises above a green-walled temple entrance. Crowds stream out through the doorway in daylight. In the foreground, two shaved-headed men in saffron-orange robes with orange shoulder cloths and rudraksha malas walk forward smiling, one holding a garland. Behind them a man in white dhoti and shirt and a man in a dark blue shirt move among devotees, and a woman in white with a yellow sash and tilak stands at left. A grey car is at lower right, and roadside stalls with red garlands sit to the right of the gate.2012-08-20Photograph of a colourful South Indian temple gopuram (tower) with tiered, painted stucco figures and a shrine niche showing a white bull mount with figures, above a pillared entrance hall with red-and-cream columns and a stone lion guardian at right. Several people stand and walk around the entrance in the dusk light: a uniformed police officer in khaki at left, a man in a red-orange dhoti and shirt in the foreground right, and a few devotees and onlookers near the doorway. No a person candidate is visible in the scene.2012-05-29May 16 20122012-05-16