The Vallipuram temple gopuram. Photo credit ... Gandhi may well have approved of this one. A poster featuring Mahatma Gandhi in Jaffna. Photo credit: Adam Jones/Wikimedia Commons [CC Attribution ...

Constructed in the Dravidian manner, these temples are characterised by their high gopurams ... It's a temple dedicated to Lord Shiva and is 7th-century old. Ancient Vijayanagara Art The ceiling ...

A lot of the stucco work on contemporary temple gopurams is based on or inspired ... Even those who don’t understand very much of art recognize his paintings and his versions of popular deities ...

The dilapidated gopuram of the Somanathar temple at Pazhayarai, the ancient capital of the Cholas, will be renovated by the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department.

It was once the capital of the Pallava Dynasty,” which ruled from the 4th to the 9th century, and they were great patrons of art ... a 59-meter-high gopuram (tower). This temple is dedicated ...

Art historians say the 18th-century paintings on the inner and outer walls of the temple gopuram are priceless specimens of the Dravidian tradition of mural art. The Ananthasayanam on the northern ...

Consequently, you have large temples of at least 3-4 acres with towering gopurams and several art works. The Tirukutralanathar-Kuzhalvai Mozhi ammai is an important temple. The sthala vriksham is ...

MACHILIPATNAM: Lightning struck Lord Venkateswara Swamy temple at Bachchupeta in Machilipatnam owing to which the temple’s ‘gali gopuram’ suffered structural damage at around 5 am on Sunday.

To keep the temple safe and from extensive damage, these lightning arresters have been installed across all temple gopurams,” Linga ... The state-of-the-art equipment set up at a cost of 30 ...

TIRUPATI: A 1,000-year-old Kalabhairava Temple and a 500-year-old gopuram at Ramagiri village in Pichatur mandal of Tirupati district are lying in a state of utter neglect. “There are serious ...