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Sri Mariamman Temple, Medan
Medan, North Sumatra · 3.5839°, 98.6710°
MariammanColonial-era Tamil settlersDravidian
Sacred since
1884 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
built 1884
Colonial-era Tamil settlers
History & significance
Medan's oldest Hindu temple, raised in 1884 in the Kampung Madras quarter by Tamil labourers brought to the plantations of North Sumatra, and rededicated for Hindu Dharma worship in 1991; its gopuram makes it the focus of Thaipusam and Deepavali in the city.