Contrasting Hindu temple entrances
The contrast of the white Gopuram, or gateway tower, known as the Vellai gopuram symbolising purity, in the Sri Ranganatha Swamy complex at Trichy in Tamil Nadu. It is the largest Hindu temple compound in India containing 50 shrines and 21 towers, all the others of which are brightly painted
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