The Top Ten Temples you should visit when you’re in South India

The southern part of India is known across the world for its majestic temples- noted for their architectural splendor and grandeur. What more? You can actually go on to write pages just about the diversity of craftsmanship demonstrated by these prestigious monuments. Vijaynagara, Dravidian, Chalukyas and so on… the gamut of architectural designs is as diverse as it can get.

Today, we will offer you a rundown of the top 10 famous South Indian Temples that every Indian should visit at least once in his or her life.

Top 10 temples in South India that every Indian should visit once

• Meenakshi Temple in Madurai: This one can top the list of any devotee out there – not only because of its awe-inspiring architecture but also because of the sheer reason that it had actually made it to the list of nominees for the New Seven Wonders of the World. Do watch out for the shrine of Meenakshi holding a parrot and the right raised leg of Nataraja besides its other ornate shrines and halls.
• Brihadeeswarar Temple: This one is located right at the center of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. Dedicated to lord Brihadeeswarar Temple (Lord Shiva’s incarnation), this archeological wonder was built 1000 years ago by the Cholas. The tower of temple remains one of the tallest in the world. Intricate Chola Nayaka paintings are its other highlights.
• Virupaksha Temple: Nestled on the banks of Tungabhadra, this splendorous creation is attributed to the Vijayanagara Empire. It is dedicated to Lord Shiva and established in the seventh century. Gopurams, detailed carvings and marvelous architecture are its assets.
• Chamundeshwari Temple: Set foot on Mysore, Karnataka and you will definitely hear a lot about this temple from the folks around. Goddess Chamundeswari is a form of Goddess Shakti. The doors of the shrine are made of gold and silver. Perched atop the beauteous Chamundi Hills (3000 ft high), you can climb up a thousand steps to reach it.

  

  Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai

• Airatesvara Temple: It is situated four kilometers on the west of Kumbakonam (40 kms from Thanjavur). It’s a 12^th century temple, especially noted for its art and stone carvings. It’s a UNESCO world heritage site.
• Shri Shri Madana Mohana(ISCKON) Temple: It was  His Divine Grace Abhay Caranarvinda Bhaktivedanta Swami who had established ISCKON or the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Situated in Nampadi, Hyderabad, this particular temple remains crowded with devotees all the year round. Pilgrims can also secure valuable insights regarding bhakti yoga and the sustenance of balanced mental and physical health.
• Arunachaleswar Temple: This temple rests just at the base of holy Mount Arunachala in Tiruvannamalai. The entire temple complex consists of three courtyards and nine towers. Lord Shiva is worshipped (as is the case with many temples in South India).
• Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple: This temple is located at the capital of Kerala – Thiruvananthapuram. Lord Vishnu is worshipped with noted reverence here. You can see the idol of Lord Padmanabhaswamy in the posture of eternal sleep right on Adisesha, the snake with a thousand heads.  The importance of this temple itself can be comprehended from the fact that this is the temple which gave the city (Thiruvananthapuram) its name – which literally translates to the Holy Abode of Anantha Padmanabha.
• Ranganathaswamy Temple: Situated in Trichi (Tiruchirapalli), Ranganathaswamy Temple is supposed to be the largest temple in India – spanning across a whopping 156 acres and actually has 21 towers or gopurams. Its 73m high main tower is the second tallest tower in Asia.
• Thalumalayan Temple: Built in the 17^th century, this particular temple is known for its musical pillars. The legends of Anasuya and Ahalya can be found here. Besides its musical pillars, do watch out for its hanging pillar and the solo Linga representing Brahma-Vishnu-Mahesh as well. 

Famous Murudeshwara Temple Of Karnataka, India

Murudeshwar temple is present in the Murudeshwar, which is situated in Bhatkal Taluk of Uttara Kannada district in the state of Karnataka, India. This is a very famous and very popular temple of south India. Many people from all over the India coming to this temple every year.

As India is a country where Hindu community people are present in majority population from thousands of years, so many Hindu temples are situated in different parts of India.

Murudeshwar temple is named after the name of popular Hindu god Shiva (Murudeshwar is another name of the Hindu god Shiva). This temple was believed as the most religious and pure place.

Murudeshwara Temple Of Karnataka

According to Hindu mythologies the origin of the name "Murudeshwar" dates to the time of Ramayana. Ramayana is a very important mythological story of Hindu community; it describes the life history of Lord Rama.

According to Hindu believe immortality and invincibility can be achieved by worshiping a divine Lingam called the Atma-Linga. Linga is an important sign of Lord Shiva.

According to Ramayana the Lanka King Ravana wanted to attain immortality by obtaining the Atma-Linga (Soul of Shiva). Since the Atma-Linga belonged to Lord Shiva, Ravana worshipped Shiva with devotion and Pleased by his prayers; Lord Shiva appeared before him and fulfils Ravana’s wish by giving the Atma-Linga. But with conditions that not put the Atma-Linga on ground before reaching Lanka otherwise it will be impossible to take the Atma-Linga from that place to any other place. But mistakenly Ravana put the Atma-Linga on ground and it is still on this place. 

People those believe on Lord Shiva they come to this place to worship lord Shiva in regular intervals, now days this place and Murudeshwar temple becomes a very popular religious place for all. So these are some things about Murudeshwar temple and about its popularity. 

Tirumala Venkateswara Temple of Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is a famous state of the country India; here majority of population belongs to Hindu community. The people of Andhra Pradesh are very strong believer of God and always want to go temple and worship god.

Tirumala Venkateswara Temple is a famous temple situated in this state Andhra Pradesh in the hill town of Tirumala, near Tirupati in Chittoor district. People of Andhra Pradesh very much believes in this temple and come every day. Thousands of people from different parts of Andhra Pradesh and from other states and also from other countries people come to this Vedic temple. 

Lord Venkateswara, an incarnation of lord Vishnu was the presiding deity of the Tirumala Venkateswara temple. People of Andhra Pradesh very much believe in Lord Vishnu so as a Lord Venkateswara an incarnation of Lord Vishnu so people also very much believe on him.

Famous Tirumala Venkateswara Temple

Thousands of people come to this place and their wishes are fulfilled by lord Venkateswara. So the people come to this temple again and again. Also this a a very old temple of India and different kings made different kinds of stone art work on this temple, so these are so many beautiful arts are present on the walls of the temple. People fells very happy by visiting this temple and the beautiful art works attract them. Due to this thousands of people from different countries come to this temple and visit and enjoy the beauty of this temple.

Venkateswara is the richest temple in India; people donate thousands and millions of money to this temple every day. So the trust of the Venkateswara temple was the richest trust of the country India.

Now days also the popularity of Venkateswara temple is same and the number of visitors of the temple increasing day by day.

So these are some things about Venkateswara temple of Andhra Pradesh.    

“Meenakshi Amman Temple” The Famous Religious Place Of Tamil Nadu

Meenakshi Amman Temple is a very famous and holy Hindu temple situated at Madurai in the state of Tamil Nadu f the country India. The temple is also called as Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple. This temple is dedicated to Hindu Goddess Maa Parvati (Parvati the consort of Lord Shiva). This temple is dedicated to her and thousands of people every year come to this temple to worship lord Shiva and Maa Parvati.

The name of this temple also called Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple because of the name of Lord Shiva and Maa Parvati. The other name of Lord Shiva is Sundareswarar and the other name of Maa Parvati is Meenakshi, so the name of the temple was Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple.

Meenakshi Amman Temple of Tamil Nadu

As India is a country where Hindu community people are major according to population and origin, so there are many temples of Hindu gods and goddess are present across all over the country. Thousands of Hindu people are every year coming to visit the temple and worshiping Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati.

The temple is also very beautiful and very fine stone work is produced on different parts of the temple by very skilful artist of India. In those old days these are very few recourses are available for those people but after that by using their skills they crate very beautiful and attractive structures those are still alive, so thousands of people coming here to see the fine art of this temple. This temple becomes the popular religious and tourist place of India.

Tourism plays very important role in development of a local country and the local area where the tourist spot is available. Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple was also plays very important role in development of the local infrastructure of the place.

So these are some things about the famous Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple of Tamil Nadu.