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Meenakshi Temple

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The Meenakshi Temple, also known as the Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple, is a historic Hindu temple on the southern bank of the Vaigai River in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is dedicated to Meenakshi, a form of Parvati, and her consort Sundareswarar, a form of Shiva, and it is theologically significant as a confluence of several denominations of Hinduism, including Shaivism, Shaktism and Vaishnavism.

Facts
Building Type
Hindu Temple Complex 1
Location
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India 1
Completed Year
1200 2
Height (m)
52 1
This is the height of the tallest (southern) gopuram tower only; the complex has several gopurams of differing height and a multi-century, multi-dynasty building history (6th-century origins, 12th-13th-century Pandya structures, 14th-century Vijayanagara rebuild, 16th-17th-century Nayak expansion) with no single completion date, so completed-year is deliberately left unfilled.
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Temple / Shrine 2
Connections

Has Building Type

Temple, Concepts

In Style

Dravidian Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Wikipedia: Meenakshi Amman Temple

Uses Element

Masonry, Architectural Materials
Source Wikipedia: Meenakshi Amman Temple
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Located In

India

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Meenakshi Amman Temple
Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph, sentence 1
    Meenakshi Temple, also known as Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple, is a historic Hindu temple located on the southern bank of the Vaigai River in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Lead paragraph, sentence 1 (place clause)
    Meenakshi Temple, also known as Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple, is a historic Hindu temple located on the southern bank of the Vaigai River in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Gopurams
    The tallest gopuram is the southern tower, built in the late 16th century CE, which rises to 170 ft (52 m).
  • Lead section
    Meenakshi Temple, also known as Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple, is a historic Hindu temple located on the southern bank of the Vaigai River in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Uses Element: Masonry, Wikipedia lead
    It consists of monuments inside several concentric enclosures (prakara), each layer fortified with high masonry walls.
  • In Style: Dravidian Architecture, Infobox: architecture
    Tamil architecture
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2. Wikidata: Meenakshi Temple
  • Wikidata Q1424358, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q1424358, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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