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A photograph inside a temple hall with white walls and a grey floor. A seated priest in white ritual dress with a shawl and rudraksha mala kneels on a white cloth in front of an offering tray holding small steel bowls, flowers, fruit and a brass lamp. Behind him a black deity murti stands in a gold arched niche, draped in a red cloth, garlanded with pink and white flowers and wearing a blue embroidered garment. To the left another dark deity murti in orange and red stands on a black-tiled plinth, and a brass oil lamp sits beside the altar.

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September 09 20112011-09-09Photo 11682562 +1 copiesPhoto 11682563September 09 20112011-09-09A priest kneels at lower left in white dhoti and shawl, bare-chested, holding a brass multi-wick oil lamp with flames before a black stone deity murti. The murti wears a blue sari-style cloth, a tall gold crown, layered gold necklaces, a white and pink garland, and a tall gold-framed shrine arch behind it draped in red cloth. Fruit, brass vessels and flowers sit on a black-tiled altar ledge at right, with a brass lamp stand beside the deity. A printed caption at lower right reads Paramahamsa Nithyananda Paramashivam, indicating the event photo rather than any identified person.2011-09-09September 28 20112011-09-28September 28 20112011-09-28Indoor shrine room with a bare-chested priest in a white dhoti holding a lit oil lamp before a gilded arched niche containing a black-faced deity murti in green and red robes with a crown and garland. To the right, a seated yellow statue in a maroon turban and layered garments raises folded hands in anjali. A white-draped table holds brass plates, a kalasha pot, copper vessels and a tray of bananas and apples. Only the priest is a physical person; the statues are depictions.2021-11-30KAILASA TORONTO, CANADA on 12/17/20212021-12-17Photo 11682561 +1 copiesInterior of a temple hall with white walls and gold-framed arched niches holding black stone deity murtis. A man in a white dhoti with a red-and-green border stands with his back to the camera, raising a lit lamp or kalasha-like vessel toward the shrines, apparently performing aarti. A woman in a red sari sits at the lower right near a black Nandi statue draped with a purple cloth. Shrines hold a blue-skinned multi-armed deity, a garlanded deity with orange cloth, and a garlanded deity in red and blue with a red curtain.2011-09-09Photograph of a temple shrine room with a bare-chested priest in white dhoti standing at left, facing the altar. Left, a tall black stone deity murti in yellow garment wearing a garland of orange marigolds stands within an ornate gold arch. Right, a shrine with a blue backdrop holds dark deity murtis in pink and gold garments, one with a feathered crown and bow, flanked by two female figures. Before the altar, a purple cloth-covered table holds brass lamps, a plate of fruit and brass vessels; a silver pot and offering bowls sit on a floral-cloth table to the right. Light grey marble floor, exposed ceiling ducts.2024-09-07