home

Madurai with beautiful
Sri Meenakshi temple
(Minakshi Sundareshvara temple)
(17th - 18th century)

India all South-India slideshow Dutch version guestbook



Google





View at the gopuras of the temple at sunset


 





Detail of the facade above the entrance
Ashta Shakti Mandapa (Portal of the Eight Goddesses)






Beautiful ceilings in several parts of the temple complex


 




 





Candles integrated in a pillar


 



Golden Lotus Tank in court-yard
(Portramarai Kulam)

 

 




Detailed mini-paintings on the wall


 



and in the ceilings.
 




 



 



Sunbeam in enormous gallery

 



Sculptured pillars


 



A lot of sunbeams

 



Visit of the temple was impressive too by the pilgrims

 


 



Powerful sunbeams
 



 




 



Once again detail of one of the facades


 



Roof of the Golden Temple


NORTHERN INDIA
 Delhi
 To Shekawati
 Shekawati
 Bikaner
 Jaisalmer
 Jodhpur 1
 Jodhpur 2
 Udaipur
 Pushkar
 Jaipur
 Bharatpur
 Fatehpur Sikri
 Agra
 To Khajuraho
 Khajuraho
 To Varanasi
 Varanasi 1
 Varanasi 2

 SOUTH-INDIA
 Mamallapuram
 Pondicherry
 Tiruchirappalli
 Madurai
 Periyar Nat.Park
 Backwaters
 Cochin
 Ooty
 Mysore
 Madikeri
 Belur
 Halebid
 Hospet
 Hampi
 Rural village
 Pattadakal
 Badami
 Goa
 Mumbai

 ORISSA
 Bhubaneshwar
 To Tapatani
 Adivasi villages
 Bittam Cuttack
 Adivasi villages
 Bondas in Segura
 Adivasi villages
 Walk hills
 Walk at daw
 Lamtaput
 Koraput
 Gopalpur on Sea
 Puri
 Konark
 Kolkata/Calcutta1
 Kolkata/Calcutta2

 SIKKIM
 Darjeeling
 Pelling
 Khecheopari Lake
 Tashiding
 Rumtek
 Labrang and
 Phodong

 Gangtok and
 Tsomgo Lake

 Kalimpong
 Siliguri





Dizzying figures





Golden Lotus Tank






   home Tiruchirappalli South India Madurai 2   

Dec/Jan 2006