View Finder | Of art and faith 5 Photos . Updated: 13 Sep 2014, 12:07 AM IST Livemint In this temple town, idols, colours, elephants and crowds 1/5Photographs by Bhaskar Krishnamurthy. The stucco work on the towers of the Madurai temple. 2/5The north tower of the temple. 3/5A ritual procession every evening where the idol of Sundareswar is carried around the mandapam to goddess Meenakshi’s chamber, and is taken back the next morning at dawn 4/5A three-dimensional painting of the Shiva lingam inside the mandapam 5/5A devotee seeks blessings from the temple elephant.