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Title: Benares: The Golden Temple, India, ca. 1915
Creator: Unknown
Contributor: Newton & Co., 37 King Street, Covent Garden, London
Date Created and/or Issued: 1910/1920
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
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The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
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Description: Tinted lantern slide showing an image of the Golden Temple in Benares (Varanasi), in the province of Uttar Pradesh, India. Varanasi is one of the oldest and holiest cities in India. The temple pictured is the Kashi Vishwanath Temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, one of the best known temples in India. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.
Format: lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
lantern slides
photographs
Identifier: IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-66.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78278
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-66.jpg
Subject: Religious buildings
Religious activities
Temples
Hinduism
Worship
Exterior views
Time Period: 1910/1920
Place: Asia
India
Uttar Pradesh
Varanasi
religious facilities: Kashi Vishwanath Temple
Source: CSCNWW33/OS14/66 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Regions Beyond Missionary Union. India captioned lantern slides (CSCNWW33/OS14)

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