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Thirumalai Kovil
Panpoli, Sengottai (Tenkasi district), Tamil Nadu · 8.9483°, 77.2750°
MuruganModernDravidian
Sacred since
1800 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
19th c. (Sivakami Ammaiyar)
Modern
History & significance
A hilltop Murugan shrine near Sengottai in the Western Ghats, reached by 625 steps, and one of the Vaippu Sthalam shrines named in the Nayanar hymns. The present temple was funded in the nineteenth century by Thiruvarutchelvar Sivakami Ammaiyar, who sold all her property to pay for it.