Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simply amazing architecture! (would love to see some detail images of those towers) Do you know how that level of intricate detail was achieved? The man-hours to achieve it? Monks? Slaves? Over how many years? Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On May 3, 2009, at 10:34 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information