Original - The ice-lingam, symbol of the Hindu god Shiva, at Amarnath temple, located 12,760 ft above sea-level. The ice-lingam is accessible only for a month, when an annual pilgrimage or yatra is organised by the State Government during the month of July and August.
Reason
IMO, The image is encyclopaedic because 1. The shrine (lingam) is accessible only for a month every year 2. The pilgrimage to Amarnath is 42 km track on foot, through mountaineous terrain. Not many people are going to do that for a photo for wikimedia. 3. In recent years, the lingam is melting quickly due to global warming see Amarnath_temple#2007_melting_controversy. Also the image is fairly big, complying to Featured pic (>1000 pixels) resolution.
Articles this image appears in
Amarnath temple
Creator
Gktambe alias Gangadhar Tambe
It's OK to delete the image on en wikipedia just as VPC File:Swami Vivekananda-1893-09-signed.jpg was deleted recently. Just add {{VPC|Amarnath}} again to the image description page after deletion of the image itself. --Redtigerxyz Talk 13:00, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I see that's done now. --Redtigerxyz Talk 13:02, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Lord Amarnath.jpg --Intothewoods29 (talk) 20:19, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]