A 17th-century pillared hall on the temple's east side, now filled with tailors, brass sellers and sculpture shops between carved columns.
Tailors here can turn a shirt around in a day. Look up — the carved pillars behind the stalls are 400 years old.
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A vast working temple to Meenakshi and Sundareswarar with fourteen gopurams covered in thousands of…
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The stalls that open after 10pm around the temple and on the Masi streets — kari dosai, jigarthanda…
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The 1636 palace of the Nayak ruler, with a colonnaded courtyard of 25-metre columns and a nightly sound…
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One of five Gandhi museums in India, in a 17th-century Nayak palace, holding the blood-stained dhoti he…