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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

Stored photograph. The earliest frame in this record is 1869.

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Albumen photograph from about 1870 showing the royal gopuram of the Ranganathaswamy Temple at Srirangam.

Royal gopuram

An albumen photograph of about 1870, titled “Royal Gopuram, Srirangam.” The photographer is not named.

  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

About 1870 Photographer not named, about 1870. Public domain, 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

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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.