Meenakshi Temple
A city within a city: fourteen gate towers crowded with painted gods above the streets of Madurai.
- Where
- Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 9.9195, 78.1193
Get the Meenakshi Temple stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Meenakshi Temple. 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 Meenakshi Temple
Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal 0.8 km
A seventeenth century audience hall with pillars twenty metres tall, a quarter of what was originally built.
Alagar Koyil 0.9 km
Where Kallazhagar enters the Vaigai every Chithirai.
Sri Pandi Muneeswarar Temple (Pandi Kovil) 5.6 km
A Madurai temple where a Pandya king is worshipped as the guardian god Pandi Muneeswarar.
Subramaniya Swamy Temple, Thiruparankundram 6.9 km
The first abode of Murugan, cut into the rock of a hill outside Madurai.
Keeladi 9.3 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 23 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 Meenakshi Temple?
Meenakshi Temple is in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal (0.8 km), Alagar Koyil (0.9 km), Sri Pandi Muneeswarar Temple (Pandi Kovil) (5.6 km).
How do I get the Meenakshi Temple stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Meenakshi Temple 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 Meenakshi Temple 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.
Collect your first stamp.
LOQAH is free on iPhone and Android, in India and 20 more countries, with more countries on the way. Stand at a place, collect its stamp, and keep every trip in a passport that grows.