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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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Gelatin silver photograph from 1895 showing the temple tank and the south tower of the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai.

Tank and south tower

William Henry Jackson’s 1895 print shows the bathing tank, a golden shrine, and the south tower in one frame.

  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

1895 William Henry Jackson, 1895. Public domain, Library of Congress, 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.