Propaganda Poster Meenakshi Temple India Working Mens Educat...

Propaganda Poster Meenakshi Temple India Working Mens Educational Union. Original antique educational canvas wall banner depicting Meenakshi Temple featuring soaring, sculpted gateway towers known as gopurams covered in thousands of colourful mythological figures. Issued by the Working Men's Educational Union from their headquarters at 25 King William St, Trafalgar Square, London. Meenakshi Temple, also known as Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple, is a historic Hindu temple located on the southern bank of the Vaigai River in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is dedicated to Meenakshi, a form of Parvati, and her consort Sundareswarar (Shiva). The temple is theologically significant as it represents a confluence of various denominations of Hinduism such as Shaivism, Shaktism, and Vaishnavism. The Working Men's Educational Union was a 19th-century British philanthropic society founded in London to elevate the working classes physically, intellectually, morally, and religiously through popular scientific and literary lectures supported by reusable, large-scale educational diagrams printed on cotton. Horizontal. Large size. Good condition, folds, creasing, staining, printed on cloth, hand coloured, with metal ringlets in corners. Country of issue: UK, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 88x118, year of printing: 1850s.