gopura

Chau Say Tevoda includes a central sanctuary, two libraries and four gopura gateway structures, one for each cardinal point.

Chau Say Tevoda - A Key Khmer Devata Temple Reopens | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context 2010

The temple of Sri Ranngam is situated a mile from the bridge and three miles from the fort, the entrance being through a gopura forty-eight feet high; the sides of this passage, one hundred feet long and forty-three feet high, are richly ornamented.

Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

Near the hall is the great gopura, and opposite this is the new gallery, of a magnificent plan but unfinished, known as Tirumala's Choultrie.

Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

We passed through a gopura ninety feet high, next through a passage one hundred and seventy feet long, then through a small gopura, when we arrived at the large outer enclosure of the temple, four hundred and fifty by eight hundred feet.

Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

They crossed over the broad square, through the gopura, into the inner temple.

The Native Born or, the Rajah's People 1922

As they reached the great doorway through the gopura, a tall figure advanced to meet them which Beatrice at once recognized in spite of the gathering twilight.

The Native Born or, the Rajah's People 1922

+Purudkul+ there is an extensive temple with shrine, choultrie, and gopura surrounded by a court enclosure measuring 250 × 150 feet (9th century).

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

The imagination of the worshiper is thus excited by successive statues and pictures, until at last he reaches the tremendous pyramidal tower, or gopura, which portrays and symbolizes the power of the heathen god to destroy and to recreate.

A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions Augustus Hopkins Strong 1878

Its tower, or gopura, is the grandest in India 119

A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions Augustus Hopkins Strong 1878

After the engagement last weekend, the portion of the temple closest to Thailand showed the marks of the fighting, with chips and chunks cut out of a column and of a wall of the fourth gopura, or entrance building, along the temple's causeway.

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