A photograph shot from below looking up at the tall grey stone shikhara of a Himalayan temple. A red and yellow painted roof eave with green pillars crowns the top against an overcast sky. No people are visible in the scene. A small square fixture is set into the stone midway up. A faint date stamp reads 21 6 2004 along the left edge. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph shot from below looking up at the tall grey stone shikhara of a Himalayan temple. A red and yellow painted roof eave with green pillars crowns the top against an overcast sky. No people are visible in the scene. A small square fixture is set into the stone midway up. A faint date stamp reads 21 6 2004 along the left edge.

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June 21 2004 Himalayas Yatra - Gangotri, Gaurikund and Kedarnath

Low-angle photograph of the stone exterior of a tall temple tower, its grey dressed-stone walls rising toward a red-and-gold eave at the top. Bands of carved foliate scrollwork and beaded moulding run horizontally across the masonry, and a thin overhead wire crosses the sky at left. Dated stamp in red digits reads 21 6 2004 along the left edge. No people or a person are visible; the subject is the temple architecture, consistent with the Kedarnath shrine referenced on the page.

Low-angle photograph looking up at the upper stone walls and tiered roof of a grey stone temple. Rows of carved floral and beaded friezes run along the tall tapering stone blocks, and a dark red and brown eaves edge sits at the top. A cloudy white sky fills the background. No people are visible.

Low-angle photograph looking up at the tall, tapering stone spire of a temple. The dark grey stone walls are layered with carved horizontal bands of floral and scroll motifs, and a small square niche sits mid-wall. A wooden-roofed top tier with carved brackets is visible at the peak. No people are present, and no a person candidate appears in the frame.

Low-angle photograph looking up at a tall, weathered grey stone temple shikhara tower with carved horizontal bands and floral friezes along its tiers, topped by a small red-and-gold roofed pavilion with prayer flags fluttering on a blue sky with clouds. No people are visible; the temple structure fills the frame.

September 27 2010

September 27 2010

Close view of the weathered grey stone exterior of a temple, with tiered mouldings, carved floral and scroll bands along the upper walls, and a small Om symbol painted in yellow on a lower ledge. At the bottom edge, the top of an orange-and-red cloth worn by a partially visible person is seen. No other people are visible in the frame.

A photograph of the Kedarnath temple, a tall dark grey stone shikhara tower with a gilded finial on top, rising in misty mountain weather. Horizontal bands of carved mouldings run up the tower, and smaller side shrines and sloping roofs sit against its base. A white metal railing with pink planters runs along the front, with small shops and buildings in the background and wet stone paving underfoot. No people are visible.

Photograph of the stone shikhara tower of a Himalayan temple under an overcast grey sky, with carved horizontal bands and a yellow-and-red cloth flag tied to a projecting ledge near the top. In the lower left corner a person with long dark hair wearing an orange saffron wrap or turban is seen from behind, partially visible at the frame edge.

September 27 2010

A photograph of the Kedarnath temple, a tall dark grey stone shikhara tower with horizontal bands of carved mouldings and a golden finial on top, set against a misty grey sky. A tiered stone base and an adjoining lower stone hall stand on a wet paved courtyard, with a low metal railing and small potted plants in the foreground. Fog hangs over green hillsides behind the temple, and a few small buildings and a figure in dark clothing are visible at the left edge. No people are prominent in the main scene.