Gallery
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Photographs
Every photograph the temple has published — the eighteen shrines as they stand, and the consecration of 2012.
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The shrines
Shri Sidhi Vinayagarசித்தி விநாயகர் 
Shri Kailasanatharகைலாசநாதர் 
Shri Venkatesa Balajiவெங்கடேச பாலாஜி 
Shri Panchamuga Vinayagarபஞ்சமுக விநாயகர் 
Shri Thampa Pillayarதம்ப பிள்ளையார் 
Shri Navagrahamநவகிரகம் 
Shri Dakshinamurthiதட்சிணாமூர்த்தி 
Shri Jaya Durgaஜெயதுர்கா 
Shri Nagathambiranநாகதம்பிரான் 
Shri Varalakshmiவரலட்சுமி 
Shri Linkotpavarலிங்கோற்பவர் 
Shri Saraswathiசரஸ்வதி 
Shri Ramasabhaராமசபை 
Shri Balakathirgama Muruganபாலகதிர்காம முருகன் 
Shri Ayyappanஐயப்பன் 
Shri Natarajarநடராஜர் 
Shri Bairavarபைரவர் 
Shri Sandesvararசண்டேஸ்வரர்
02
Maha Kumbabishekam, 2012
The ground outside dressed for the rites, vessels set out and the flags raised. 
Priests at the yagasala, the fire rituals under way. 
The congregation under the canopy, palms joined. 
Waiting in the street outside, among the houses. 
A shrine dressed for the consecration, pots and garlands at its base. 
The same shrine from the hall, the pandal overhead. 
A deity in the gold arch, dressed in saffron. 
Mango leaves and vessels set at the shrine. 
A stone deity in its granite niche. 
Dressed in yellow against the white tile. 
Garlanded in the small arch. 
Three deities dressed together in saffron. 
The temple car, painted and tiered, standing ready. 
The procession in the street outside, kalasam pots carried past the brick houses. 
The cow brought for the rites, led down from the trailer. 
The flagstaff carried out, priests on either side. 
Inside the hall as the rites go on. 
Lamps held through the congregation. 
Priests in their turbans, the congregation behind. 
A row of lamps carried into the hall. 
Lamps held at the front of the crowd. 
A priest with the kalasam, dressed and standing ready. 
A priest on the ladder at the tower, setting the finial in place. 
A priest at the shrine, the deity garlanded. 
A priest with palms joined, the hall behind him. 
Outside during the day, families waiting. 
The rites announced to the hall. 
A garlanded deity deep in the granite niche. 
Priests at the height of the ceremony. 
Aarti offered before the shrine. 
The hall at its fullest, the congregation pressed in on every side. 
Aarti at the height of it — lamps and smoke over the crowd. 
Carried through the hall. 
A family before the shrine. 
A family before the shrine. 
A family before the shrine. 
A family before the shrine. 
Four before the shrine, garlands still fresh. 
A family before the shrine. 
A family before the shrine. 
A garlanded deity in the granite niche. 
Carried out through the hall, a child watching from the front.