Kerala Temples

Tirunavaya Navamukunda Temple

Thiruvithuvakodu Uyyavandha Perumal Temple

Thrikkakara Vamanamoorthy Temple

Thirumoozhikkulam Lakshmana Perumal Temple

Thiruvalla Sreevallabha Temple

Thrikkodithanam Mahavishnu Temple

Chengannur Thrichittatt Mahavishnu Temple

Puliyur Mahavishnu Temple — Thiruppuliyur

Aranmula Parthasarathy Temple

Thiruvanvandoor Pambanaiappan Temple

Thiruvananthapuram Padmanabhaswamy Temple

Guruvayur Sri Krishna Temple

Krishna devotion in Kerala: a four-armed sacred image, living performance traditions and a calendar centred on worship.

Sabarimala Sree Dharma Sastha Temple

A forest pilgrimage to Ayyappa’s hill shrine, shaped by preparation, sacred steps and a seasonal worship calendar.

Chottanikkara Bhagavathy Temple

Chottanikkara near Kochi is one of Kerala’s best-known Bhagavathy pilgrimages.

Mannarasala Nagaraja Temple

Mannarasala near Harippad is a serpent shrine set within a sacred grove.

Attukal Bhagavathy Temple

Attukal in Thiruvananthapuram is renowned for Pongala, when women prepare a devotional food offering across a vast temporary ritual landscape.

Vadakkunnathan Temple

Vadakkunnathan occupies Thrissur’s central Thekkinkadu Maidan landscape.

Ambalappuzha Sree Krishna Swamy Temple

Krishna in the Parthasarathi devotional tradition

Ettumanoor Mahadevar Temple

Shiva as Ettumanoorappan

Koodalmanikyam Temple

Bharata as Sangameshwara, in a Vishnu iconographic form

Mammiyur Temple

Shiva as Mammiyur Mahadeva in the Uma-Maheshwara tradition

Pazhavangadi Ganapathy Temple

Ganesha as Maha Ganapati

Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple

Vishnu as Poornathrayeesa / Santhanagopala Murthy

Thriprayar Temple

Rama as Sree Ramaswami