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Chennakeshava Temple, Belur, state of Karnataka, India.
The Temple was built in 1117 AD by Hoysala Empire King.
Architecture as Tamil patromonial heritance. One of my most favorite, the Kailasanathar Temple. The Temple was built by the Pallavas in the early 8th century, based on the model of the 'Five Rathas' in Mamallapuram and stood most probably model for the famous Rajarajeeswaram temple in Tanjore. Yes I include here still some people walking around the sanctuary and even a green little parrot, you find it ?
The sitting, standing and jumping lions on the pillars indicate the 3 dynasties of the Pallavas.
Date Taken: 2006-12-08
Canon EOS 5D, 16-35mm f/2.8L USM, RAW, ISO-200
Exposure: f/14.0, 1/160 sec
A macaque monkey at Mount Popa near Bagan, Myanmar (Burma), tries to open a water bottle stolen from a hapless temple visitor.
The Temple of Khonsu
Located in the southwest corner of the Karnak Temple Complex, Khonsu Temple is a beautiful example of an almost complete New Kingdom temple and is well worth exploring. But, due to its location—somewhat off the beaten track at Karnak—it is rarely visited by tourists.
Khonsu was the son of the chief deity Amun-Ra and his wife the goddess Mut. Together these three formed what is known as the Theban Triad of the ancient Egyptian pantheon.
From the inscriptions of the temple, archaeologists are quite certain that it was Ramses III who initiated construction of the temple within the Precinct of Amun-Ra. Besides the images and names for Ramses III, the names of Ramesses IV, Ramesses XI, Ramesses XII, Herihor and Pinedjem have also been found on the temple and pylon. It was Ramses III (perhaps even Ramses IV) who completed the temple, while the later kings and high priests took advantage of blank spaces to apply their names and images to the temple of the god.
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For several years now the American Research Center in Egypt in collaboration with Centre Franco-Égyptien d’Étude des Temples de Karnak (the Franco-Egyptian Centre for the study of the Karnak Temples) and by members of the Supreme Council of Antiquities have have been preparing the temple of Khonsu for visitors.
Some of the most well-preserved and vivid relief carvings anywhere at Karnak was hidden within Khonsu Temple under centuries of smoke and grime. Big progress being made now on cleaning the painted carvings and inscriptions in the small rooms that surround the sanctuary in the Temple of Khonsu.
These photographs show some of the carved and painted images and texts on the walls of the small rooms that surround the temple’s sanctuary. The specific function of these rooms is stil not fully understood, but they were used by the High Priests to store the god’s belongings, his jewellery and insignia, as well as other ritual objects. Besides restoring these images for their former glory for us all to see, cleaning them allows Egyptologists a better idea of what they looked like, to learn more about the colour symbolism of the carved images and texts, and hopefully to learn more about what these rooms were used for.
GWR Class 165/1 'Turbo' unit 165 120 waits for joining passengers platform 3 at Bristol Temple Meads station from where it will work the 2D28 18:45 service to Bristol Parkway.
These British Rail DMUs were built by BREL York in 1992 for local services on the Thames Line sub-division of Network SouthEast. Now carrying the GWR branding, these units were re-allocated in 2018 to work services in the Bristol area.
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A sepia toned version of the Salt Lake City temple take shortly after a snow storm. I have had this printed on Endura Metallic paper and it looks incredible.
It was cloudy and not the best lighting condition. However, I was rewarded with a nice composition of a painter at the foreground.
The 19th century Hanseshwari Temple with ornate arches. The main deity is the blue neem (= margosa)-wood idol of the four-armed goddess Hanseshwari, a manifestation of Goddess Kali. The temple is 21M high and has 13 towers. The peak of each tower is shaped as a lotus flower. Built according to Tantric principles, this five-storey shrine follows the structure of a human body - Ira, Pingala, Bajraksha, Sushumna and Chitrini
Hanseshwari Temple Complex [?], Bñasberia, West Bengal, হংসেশ্বরী মন্দির, বাঁশবেড়িয়া, India, 10.3.2009 / 14:03
More photos at Hanseshwari & Basudev Temple
Badami, Karnataka.
These temples were in a state of ruin untill ASI took charge in 1957. Many of the temples had become homes for villagers. many statues, stone blocks had been taken away or damaged by locals or art thieves.
ASI has done a commendable job of renovating these temples.
The Abu Simbel temples are two massive rock temples at Abu Simbel (أبو سمبل in Arabic), a village in Nubia, southern Egypt, near the border with Sudan. They are situated on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about 230 km southwest of Aswan (about 300 km by road). The complex is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the "Nubian Monuments," which run from Abu Simbel downriver to Philae (near Aswan). The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the 13th century BC, as a lasting monument to himself and his queen Nefertari, to commemorate his victory at the Battle of Kadesh. Their huge external rock relief figures have become iconic.
The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968, on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir. The relocation of the temples was necessary to prevent them from being submerged during the creation of Lake Nasser, the massive artificial water reservoir formed after the building of the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River.