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Meenakshi Temple

Madurai, Madurai District, Tamil Nadu Shaiva and Shakta 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 1858.

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Albumen photograph from 1858 by Linnaeus Tripe showing the entrance to the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai.

Temple entrance

A second Tripe photograph from the same 1858 campaign, showing the entrance to the Meenakshi shrine.

  1. 1858 East gopuram
  2. January–March 1858 Temple entrance
  3. About 1880 Painted corridor
  4. 1890s Interior pillars
  5. 1895 Tank and south tower
  6. 1923 Tank and southern gopuram
  7. 3 February 2006 Gopuram

January–March 1858 Linnaeus Tripe, 1858. Open-access file from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, 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.