The blue hour watched from the hotel roof garden drinking a well deserved cold beer. (Madurai despite being a holy town and in the dry state of Tamil Nadu, beer is available.)
The towering gopurams that you see are the entrances of the Meenakshi Amman Temple, a historic and important Hindu temple located on the southern bank of the Vaigai River dedicated to Parvati, who is also known as Meenakshi (the wife of Shiva)