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.
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Building Type LocationMadurai, Tamil Nadu, India 1 Completed Year Height (m)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
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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.
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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.
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The tallest gopuram is the southern tower, built in the late 16th century CE, which rises to 170 ft (52 m).
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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.
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It consists of monuments inside several concentric enclosures (prakara), each layer fortified with high masonry walls.
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The tallest is the southern tower, which was built in the 16th century and rises to 170 ft (52 m).
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