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Brihadisvara Temple

Thanjavur, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu Shaiva tradition

Served from the stored corpus. Last scan Sep 28, 2026. Next scan Oct 28, 2026.

Photograph

Stored photograph. The earliest frame in this record is 1868.

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Photograph from 1869 by Samuel Bourne showing a gopura of the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur.

Gopura

Samuel Bourne photographed a gateway tower in the complex in 1869.

  1. 1868 Temple from the grounds
  2. 1869 Gopura
  3. 1869 Subrahmanya shrine
  4. 1880s–1890s Temple, photographer not named
  5. 1890s Temple and grounds
  6. 1908 Postcard view
  7. 15 December 2010 Gopuram

1869 Samuel Bourne, 1869. Public domain, KITLV, via Wikimedia Commons. Source and license

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Sanctum Unknown or insufficient evidence · Medium confidence No measured plan is stored. The sanctum is named from the secondary account, not from a drawing.