Gopura

Word GOPURA
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Definitions and meanings of "Gopura"

What do we mean by gopura?

A monumental tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a temple, especially in Southern India.

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The word "gopura" in example sentences

Chau Say Tevoda includes a central sanctuary, two libraries and four gopura gateway structures, one for each cardinal point. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)

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. ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)

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. ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)

They crossed over the broad square, through the gopura, into the inner temple. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (1922)

+Purudkul+ there is an extensive temple with shrine, choultrie, and gopura surrounded by a court enclosure measuring 250 × 150 feet (9th century). ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Augustus Hopkins Strong (1878)

Its tower, or gopura, is the grandest in India 119 ❋ 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. ❋ By SETH MYDANS (2011)

At the fifth and last gopura, chips from the walls were scattered on the ground, along with the tail fins of a rocket. ❋ By SETH MYDANS (2011)

An ever-changing architectural, mythological and geological panorama unfolds as visitors progress along the temple's 2,600-foot-long processional axis, up a series of gently sloping causeways and steep staircases through five gopura, or pavilions, each more sacred than the last. ❋ By DANIEL ROBINSON (2009)

.. and four gopura gateway structures, one for each cardinal point. ❋ Unknown (2009)

_mantapa_, D, and to that of the entrance pavilion or _gopura_, C. ❋ Various (N/A)

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