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High medieval · Hindu · India
Irumbai Mahaleswarar Temple
இரும்பை மாகாளேசுவரர் கோயில்
Irumbai (Irumbai Maakalam), Tamil Nadu · 12.0066°, 79.7872°
Shiva (Maakaleswarar), with the goddess Kuyilmozhi AmmaiUndetermined—Paadal Petra Sthalam
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Shiva temple in Irumbai village, Vanur taluk of Villupuram district, close to Auroville. It is one of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams, glorified in the early medieval Tevaram hymns of the Nayanar Sambandar.