Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/03

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Subject: [Leica] Photos of a Temple
From: michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema)
Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 18:01:23 +0200
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Great place.

thanks for showing.

Michiel Fokkema

Ric Carter wrote:
> WOW, that's beautiful!!
> 
> thanks for taking us there
> 
> ric
> 
> 
> On May 3, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> 
>> I was in the temple town of Madurai a few days ago, if you can call a
>> place with  2 million inhabitants a mere town, with a few hours free
>> so I went to the monumental Meenakshi Sundareshwar temple there  where
>> the god Siva (Sundareswar) and the goddess Meenakshi (Parvathi) are
>> said to have wed, and around which the whole city has evolved. It is
>> at the pinnacle of South Indian temple architecture, and is supposed
>> to be 2500-3000 years old, though most of the temple buildings
>> existent today date from the 11th to the 18th century. The whole
>> temple complex is huge, around 45 acres, with the main temple itself
>> measuring 254 by 237 metres, and has 12 huge goparams (temple towers).
>> It had just been freshly painted and was nice and colourful! It was a
>> very auspicious day and it was  quite crowded, so I kept a little away
>> from the holiest spots. Anyway, a few pictures:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Madurai/
>>
>> Comments & criticism, as always, welcome.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
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