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I decided to visit and share about the great architecture in Indian temples whenever I visit India. To start with, I focused on Srirangam Renganatha Swamy Temple, the famous temple in my hometown. Srirangam is like an island between river Cauvery and Kollidam - well we cannot say Kollidam as a separate river as Cauvery splits and joins again and the split part Kollidam. Srirangam temple is unique for several reasons - history says, this temple came into existence when Vibheeshana kept Renganatha Idol for a minute on his trip to Sri Lanka and hence divine. Ramanuja is believed to live even now inside the temple and his body preserved through herbs. But I like for the fact that the temple has the tallest front tower or also called Raja Gopuram. The Raja Gopuram, standing at 237 feet, is the tallest tower in Asia for that kind. Though there are bunch of websites on this temple, I was not convinced that they captured all and presented from an art or architecture point of view. This is an attempt to make the best site for the temple. I took close to 100 pictures on the temple to cover every aspect of the temple and highlight the architecture and turned into ~60 HTML pages full of high-resolution pictures. I also have presented these pictures like how they look with the approximate layout of the temple. You could navigate either by clicking the thumbnails from this page or the below links: |
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