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Early modern · Hindu · Malaysia
Sri Mahamariamman Temple, Penang
George Town, Penang, Penang · 5.4173°, 100.3383°
Mahamariamman (a manifestation of Parvati)Modern (Tamil diaspora)Dravidian
Sacred since
1801 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
shrine 1801; temple 1833
Modern (Tamil diaspora)
History & significance
The mother-goddess temple of George Town's Tamil quarter, begun as a shrine on land granted in 1801 and built up into a temple by 1833. It has been reconsecrated five times between 1933 and 2016, taking the honorific Arulmigu at the 1980 kumbabishekam.