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High medieval · Hindu · India
Chinakkathoor Temple
Palappuram, Ottapalam, Palakkad district, Kerala · 10.7706°, 76.4186°
BhagavathiUndeterminedKerala
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Bhagavathi temple at Palappuram near Ottapalam with two shrines, the Thazhekavu below and the older Melakavu above, and a Ganapati shrine beside a great banyan. The upper shrine is served by priests of the Kulangara Nair family while Namboothiris officiate below and during the ten-day pooram.