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The first of its kind was a temple in Ratlam.
Documenting a place of worship carries a different kind of responsibility. The first project of this kind was the Karamdi Jain Temple, and it set the tone for the rest.
From the capture-program era, the standard here: ritual hours respected, devotees never in frame.
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Karamdi Jain Temple, Ratlam.
Worth knowing.
Karamdi Jain Temple, Ratlam, MP: a mountain temple built in a record 100 days, modeled after the Shri Shatrunjay Tirth in Palitana, the first religious-site project taken on.
Sree Veeranjaneya Temple, Bangalore: the mandap, scanned specifically to support hall bookings.
Chapel, Good Shepherd International School, Ooty.
A small temple on the JK Tyre plant grounds, Gwalior.
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The Religious places playlist.
A 2,000-year-old temple
Tirukurungudi, near Tirunelveli.
Worth being clear about what this actually was: the scan wasn't built around the elephant, and the elephant wasn't there for the scan. It was simply present at the temple that day, the way temple elephants often are. At one point it stopped, turned, and looked directly over for a few seconds before going back to what it was doing. Hard not to read that as a moment of genuine reluctance, whatever it actually was.
One thing worth saying plainly: a photo of a temple elephant restrained by a chain isn't going in this gallery. That's a real, ongoing animal welfare concern in India, and this isn't the place to normalize it, however incidental its presence was to the actual work.
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Is there anything specific to be careful of when scanning a place of worship?
Mostly scheduling around prayer times and visitor flow. The Karamdi Jain Temple review specifically praised the detailing and clarity of the result.
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