Tiruvannamalai temple

City: Tiruvannamalai
State: Tamil Nadu
Location: South India
Type of Building: Temple
Dedicated To: Lord Shiva
Religion: Hinduism
Accommodation: Accommodations are available at Thiruvanamallai.
Accessibility: Thiruvanamallai is connected to the other cities by road.

Temple is an externalized aspect of faith, and it is a place to restore peace and harmony. What great seers have visualized has been made outwardly real in a temple. This temple is safely edifice consecrated to the Lord of Light and other deities, built centuries ago at the foot of the hill to form the seat of worship. The main entrance to the sanctum sanctorum is in the eastern tower, the tallest structure in proportion to the other dimensions of this largest temple forming part of it. The tower rising heavenward is marvellously massive and magnificently majestic one with its imposing structural elegance and inviting architectural excellence and awes people at a distance.
Temple is the world's only social hope and the sole promise of peace and harmony; it purifies the society, and looks at the world with the intention of serving it, and strengthening society spiritually uniting people. The temple stands for the eternal, and the great glory of god where people praise the name of god and sing his glory. The temple offers you something you simply cannot get else where.
Daily Poojas at Temple
05.30 AM Ushathkalam
08.00 AM Kalasanthi
10.00 AM Uchikalam
06.00 PM Sayarakshai
08.00 PM IrandamKalam
09.30 PM Artha Jamam

Thanjavur big temple

City: Thanjavur
State: Tamil Nadu
Location: South India
Year of Construction 1003 and 1010 A.D.
Constructed By Raja Raja Cholan
Type of Construction Ancient
Type of Building Temple
Religion Hinduism
Best Time Winter
Visit Timings 9 a.m to 1. p.m, 2.p.m. to 6.p.m.
Entry Formalities Ticket Rs.3
Accessibility: Thanjavur is accessible by road and train from most cities of Tamil Nadu, which includes of course Madras. Trichy has an airport with flights from Madras and Colombo (Sri Lanka), and is also an important railhead. Gangaikondacholapuram is 71 kilometres from Thanjavur. The city of Kumbakonam is 40 kilometres from Thanjavur and a further five kilometres brings you to Darasuram.

Templenet focuses this week on the glorious temples attributed to the reign of Raja Raja Chola and his successors in the Thanjavur Cauvery belt of South India.

Historically speaking, these temples are not as ancient as the 274 odd Saivite temples and the 108 Vaishnavite Shrines sung by the Nayanmars and Alwars of the 7th through the 9th centuries; however they stand out as towering monuments proclaiming the glory of the Chola regime and its committment to the arts and culture.

The districts of Thanjavur, Kumbhakonam and Nagappattinam (constituting the erstwhile Thanjauvr district) boast of hundreds of ancient temples. The town of Thanjavur was the seat of the glorious Chola Empire of Tamilnadu, and was later on the seat of the Nayaks and the Marathas. True to art historian Fergusson, the Chola artists conceived like giants and finished like jewellers.