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Early modern · Hindu · India
Badrakali Amman Temple, Sivakasi
Sivakasi, Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu · 9.4564°, 77.7978°
Badrakali Amman (Bhadrakali, fierce form of Parvati)UndeterminedDravidian
Sacred since
1700 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
18th c.; expanded 19th–20th c.
Undetermined
History & significance
The principal temple of Sivakasi, with a five-tiered gopuram some 110 feet high and a gold-plated vimana over the north-facing sanctum; its ten-day Panguni and Chithirai Pongal festivals are the town's largest, and the temple figures in accounts of the 1899 Sivakasi riots.