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.

1869 Samuel Bourne, 1869. Public domain, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 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.