Place · Rama temple · India
Sri Rama, Thrissur
Also known as Sri Rama, Thrissur, Tripprayar Ramaswamy
The Thrissur Vadakkunnathan Rama shrine at Thrissur, Kerala — one of the four Nalambalam Rama-brothers temples of central Kerala (Thrissur Rama, Irinjalakuda Bharata, Payammal Lakshmana, Moozhikkulam Shatrughna) that reconstitute the Ramayana brothers geographically. The Vadakkunnathan Thrissur Rama shrine's main deity is Shiva Vadakkunnathan (not Rama), but the Rama sub-shrine is one of the four Nalambalam temples. The Thrissur Pooram festival each April-May (one of Kerala's largest, with elephant processions from 10 temples converging at Vadakkunnathan) is the major annual event. The temple's foundation is 7-century Chera-period; the current structure is 11-century Vastu-shastra Kerala-style with later additions. The temple sits in the geographical centre of the Thrissur city. UNESCO tentative list since 2006.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 10.443, 76.081
Connections (2)
- Nalambalam brothersSangameshwara / Bharata, Irinjalakuda
The Nalambalam circuit takes in four central Kerala temples in which Rama, Bharata, Lakshmana and Shatrughna are each the principal deity in a separate town — Thriprayar, Irinjalakuda, Moozhikkulam and Payammal — visited in one day, before noon, in order. Bharata as a principal deity is almost unknown elsewhere in India, and the circuit is the only place the four brothers are systematically distributed across a landscape.
- Site withinThrissur / Vadakkunnathan
Sri Rama, Thrissur sits inside Thrissur / Vadakkunnathan and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
Sources
Wikipedia, “Rama”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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