Tulsi Manas Mandir — Sri Durga Temple — Banaras

Description

Postcard presenting two temples in Banaras: above, the Tulsi Manas Mandir, a temple dedicated to the poet Tulsi Das with rare marbles and the epic of the Ramayana engraved on the walls; below, the Sri Durga Temple, a richly carved 18th-century temple dedicated to the warrior goddess Durga, frequented by photographers and populated by hundreds of monkeys. The reverse contains an English description of the two temples, a postage stamp, and a cancellation.