Hindu devotees and priests have traveled from around the country for the Chaturveda Maha Yajna, the first of its kind to be ...

Nearly after 275 years, a rare Maha Kumbhabhisekam was performed at the world''s richest Lord Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple ...

Dressed in festive saris and other traditional clothing, they gazed up toward a gopuram - an ornamented temple tower whose white, newly restored facade gleamed brilliantly in the mid-day sun.

Equally impressive is the majestic gopuram at the temple’s eastern entrance. What makes this nearly 144-foot-tall gopuram stand out among the others is its colour. While other gopurams ...

The dilapidated gopuram of the Somanathar temple at Pazhayarai, the ancient capital of the Cholas, will be renovated by the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department.

I first set my eyes on the gopuram of the Vallipuram Vishnu temple on a warm Sunday morning in early March. Named after the nearby village, the temple complex looks like a small oasis among the ...

a Hindu temple in Swedesboro, is not the largest or most ornate as far as Hindu temples go. Until recently, it didn’t even have its own gopuram — the monumental, detailed and costly tower that ...

Tamil Nadu BJP vice president Narayanan Thirupathy on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the ruling DMK government for a temple-style gopuram decoration above the burial site of former Chief ...

MACHILIPATNAM: Lightning struck Lord Venkateswara Swamy temple at Bachchupeta in Machilipatnam owing to which the temple’s ‘gali gopuram’ suffered structural damage at around 5 am on Sunday.

Hyderabad: The famous Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple at Yadagirigutta, 70 km from here, will soon have a golden gopuram. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who visited the temple for the first ...

serve as gateways through which worshipers enter the temple. Walking through a gopuram, temple leaders explained, devotees leave their worldly problems behind and immerse themselves into their ...