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Ranganathaswamy Temple

Srirangam, Tiruchirappalli District, Tamil Nadu Sri Vaishnava 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 1869 by Samuel Bourne of the Vishnu temple at Srirangam, titled with the colonial name Trichinopoly.

Temple in 1869

Samuel Bourne’s 1869 photograph is titled “Temple of Vishnu, Trichinopoly.” That is the colonial name for the city beside Srirangam. This is the earliest photograph of the temple stored here.

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  1. 1869 Temple in 1869
  2. About 1870 Gopura
  3. About 1870 Royal gopuram
  4. About 1880 Eastern pagoda
  5. 1938 Hall of a thousand pillars

1869 Samuel Bourne, 1869. Public domain, Minneapolis Institute of Art, via Wikimedia Commons. Source and license

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  • Identified from a secondary account This line records the published identification only. It does not add a construction date or a height. Date not established in this corpus · Documented fact · Medium confidence

Evidence summary

Counts are records in this corpus, including gaps.

5 Republishable photographs
1 Interior photographs
0 Diagrams
1 Documents

About the temple

The Ranganathaswamy Temple occupies Srirangam island in the Kaveri, beside Tiruchirappalli. Secondary accounts dedicate it to Ranganatha, a reclining form of Vishnu, and describe the temple as a walled town of successive enclosures. No foundation year is established in this corpus. Samuel Bourne photographed the temple in 1869. That is the earliest photograph stored here.

Primary deity: Ranganatha

No foundation year is established in this corpus. The stored photographs begin in 1869.