Alagar Koyil
Where Kallazhagar enters the Vaigai every Chithirai.
- Where
- Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 9.9261, 78.1141
Get the Alagar Koyil stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Alagar Koyil. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Tamil Nadu volume with your photos and a note.
Near Alagar Koyil
Meenakshi Temple 0.9 km
A city within a city: fourteen gate towers crowded with painted gods above the streets of Madurai.
Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal 1.7 km
A seventeenth century audience hall with pillars twenty metres tall, a quarter of what was originally built.
Sri Pandi Muneeswarar Temple (Pandi Kovil) 6.0 km
A Madurai temple where a Pandya king is worshipped as the guardian god Pandi Muneeswarar.
Subramaniya Swamy Temple, Thiruparankundram 7.0 km
The first abode of Murugan, cut into the rock of a hill outside Madurai.
Keeladi 10 km
An excavation on the Vaigai that pushed urban Tamil settlement back to the sixth century BCE.
Kallazhagar Temple 20 km
A Vishnu temple at Alagar Koyil, in the hills north of Madurai.
Pazhamudircholai Murugan Temple 22 km
The sixth abode of Murugan, in a grove on the Alagar hills.
Begumpur Mosque, Dindigul 51 km
A Nayak-period mosque below Dindigul rock, plain and old.
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Questions
Where is Alagar Koyil?
Alagar Koyil is in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Meenakshi Temple (0.9 km), Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal (1.7 km), Sri Pandi Muneeswarar Temple (Pandi Kovil) (6.0 km).
How do I get the Alagar Koyil stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Alagar Koyil and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Tamil Nadu volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Alagar Koyil before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Tamil Nadu volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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