A VISUAL ARCHIVE
Images that open a story.
Historical paintings, narrative art, festivals and photographs of living temples. Every image has a named source and reuse status in the credits ↗.
HISTORICAL PAINTING
Lord Vishnu seated on a lotus
Pahari painting, c. 1730 · Public domain
HISTORICAL PAINTING
Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi on Ananta Shesha
Pahari painting, c. 1810 · Public domain
THE BHAGAVATA PURANA
Gajendra Moksha
Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0
THE CHURNING OF THE OCEAN
Samudra Manthana
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0
TEMPLE SCULPTURE
Narasimha and Prahlada
VasuVR · CC BY 4.0
FESTIVAL TRADITION
Rangoli and diyas
RashmiGhorpade · CC0 1.0
FESTIVAL TRADITION
Navratri Garba
Saurabh sirohiya · CC BY-SA 4.0
TAMIL NADU
Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple
Richard Mortel · CC BY 2.0
ANDHRA PRADESH
Tirumala Venkateswara
Phanidharvaranasi · CC BY-SA 4.0
UTTARAKHAND
Badrinath
Kinkhab · CC BY-SA 4.0
ODISHA
Jagannath, Puri
Subashdas123 · CC0
GUJARAT
Dwarkadhish
Kunalmehra7 · CC BY-SA 3.0
KERALA
Sree Padmanabhaswamy
Winkywinkis · CC BY-SA 4.0
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