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High medieval · Hindu · India
Annappanpettai Sundareswarar Temple
Annappanpettai, Mayiladuthurai district, Tamil Nadu · 11.0931°, 79.8022°
Shiva as Sundareswarar (consort Azhagammai)Undetermined—Paadal Petra Sthalam
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
dating unrecorded
Undetermined
History & significance
A Shiva temple in the Sirkazhi block of Mayiladuthurai district, at a place historically called Kalikamoor, counted among the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams. It was sung by Tirugnanasambandar in the Tevaram, and the sage Parasara is held to have worshipped here.