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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

Earliest republishable photograph in this record.

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Photograph from 1868 by Edmund David Lyon showing the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur from the grounds.

Temple from the grounds

Edmund David Lyon photographed the temple in 1868. Linnaeus Tripe’s 1858 prints are still not stored.

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  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

1868 Edmund David Lyon, 1868. Public domain, 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.