Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal
A seventeenth century audience hall with pillars twenty metres tall, a quarter of what was originally built.
- Where
- Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Grade
- State heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 3 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 9.9149, 78.1243
Get the Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal. 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 Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal
Meenakshi Temple 0.8 km
A city within a city: fourteen gate towers crowded with painted gods above the streets of Madurai.
Alagar Koyil 1.7 km
Where Kallazhagar enters the Vaigai every Chithirai.
Sri Pandi Muneeswarar Temple (Pandi Kovil) 5.3 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 8.6 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 52 km
A Nayak-period mosque below Dindigul rock, plain and old.
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Questions
Where is Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal?
Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal is in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Meenakshi Temple (0.8 km), Alagar Koyil (1.7 km), Sri Pandi Muneeswarar Temple (Pandi Kovil) (5.3 km).
How do I get the Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal 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 Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal 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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