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High medieval · Hindu · India
Choorakkottukavu Bhagavathy Temple
Thrissur, Kerala · 10.5596°, 76.1774°
Durga as MahishasuramardiniUndeterminedKerala
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A goddess temple in Thrissur that takes part in the Thrissur Pooram each year, its deity setting out for the Vadakkumnathan temple with a single elephant and nadaswaram and building to a procession of fourteen elephants with pandi melam.