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High medieval · Hindu · India
Varadharaja Perumal Temple, Puducherry
Puducherry, Puducherry · 11.9408°, 79.8300°
Varadharaja Perumal (Vishnu), with Perundevi ThayarCholaDravidian
Sacred since
1000 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
11th c. (Chola), expanded 12th c.
Chola
History & significance
A Vishnu temple in Puducherry town believed to have been founded by the Cholas in the 11th century and enlarged by the Pandyas in the 12th, later rebuilt in the colonial period. It sheltered the images of the Vedapurishvarar temple when that shrine was destroyed in 1748, and its Vasantha mandapa was funded jointly by the town's Hindu, Muslim and Christian residents.