Hello Wikimedians,

It gives us immense pleasure to inform you all that the 3-members national jury team https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021_in_India/Jury of Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 in India https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021_in_India photo-competition has announced the 10 winning photographs of the national competition. We had 750 photographers, 83% of them were new, who uploaded more than 5000 photographs in total.

The winning photographs are as follows-

1. Gali Mantapa https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GALIMANTAPA.jpg, Chitradurga Karnataka by Basavarajmin21 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Basavarajmin21&action=edit&redlink=1 2. Gujari Mahal https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sculptured_wall_of_gurjari_Mahal,_Gwalior.jpg, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh by ASHISHMIND https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:ASHISHMIND&action=edit&redlink=1 3. Fauti Masjid https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fauti_Masjid_Interior.jpg, Murshidabad, West Bengal by DeepanjanGhosh https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DeepanjanGhosh 4. Pan Supari Bazar https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PAN_SUPARI_BAZAAR.jpg, Hampi, Karnataka by Basavarajmin21 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Basavarajmin21&action=edit&redlink=1 5. Shanti Stupa https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shanti_Stupa_Ladakh.jpg, Leh, Ladakh by ClickAR89 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:ClickAR89&action=edit&redlink=1 6. Temple, Hampi https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Humpi.jpg, Karnataka by Bansode Mahesh https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Bansode_Mahesh&action=edit&redlink=1 7. Chawk Masjid https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chawk_Masjid,_Murshidabad.jpg, Murshidabad, West Bengal by DeepanjanGhosh https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DeepanjanGhosh 8. Shyamsundar temple https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syama_Sundara_temple.jpg, Jhikira, West Bengal by DeepanjanGhosh https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DeepanjanGhosh 9. Taj Mahal https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taj_Mahal_Mosque_Mihrab.jpg, Agra, Uttar Pradesh by Abhinav152013 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Abhinav152013&action=edit&redlink=1 10. Qutb Minar https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taking_care_of_the_blues_-_HighRes_-_SI_01839.jpg, Mehrauli Delhi by Shikhers https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Shikhers&action=edit&redlink=1

All these photographs are listed https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2020_in_India/Winnersin our event page and have been forwarded https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021_winners#India to the international WLM competition.

This year, we had also declared 2 special prizes https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021_in_India/Prize -

- Highest number of uploads - which will go to Goutam1962 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Goutam1962 who had uploaded 258 images. - Winning photograph from West Bengal - which will go to DeepanjanGhosh https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DeepanjanGhosh who had secured 3rd prize for the national contest.

We will start contacting the winning photographers in this week, so that we can send the national prizes to them in due course.

Regards, Bodhisattwa