Andal Temple
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📍 Srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu
⭐ Featured National SignificanceThe birthplace of Saint Andal and one of the most important temples for Goddess Andal, famous for its towering gopuram and devotional significance.
🕒 Practical Information
🕉️ Spiritual Details
Goddess Andal and Lord Rangamannar
Andal-Vishnu Temple
Andal, Nachiyar, Divine Bride, Female Saint
✨ Spiritual Highlights
The temple grants successful marriages and marital harmony, pure devotional love, spiritual surrender and bhakti, poetic and artistic inspiration, fertility and childbirth blessings, and divine feminine empowerment.
The temple is famous for marriage arrangement miracles, pure devotional experiences, spiritual poetry inspiration, fertility blessings for women, and powerful bhakti transformation stories.
Reciting Thiruppavai and Nachiyar Tirumozhi, offering prayers for marriage and relationships, devotional singing and poetry, seeking divine feminine blessings.
Successful marriages and perfect life partners, pure devotional love and spiritual surrender, poetic and artistic inspiration, fertility and safe childbirth, divine feminine empowerment and guidance, and bhakti spiritual development.
📖 About Andal Temple
Andal Temple in Srivilliputhur is one of the most sacred temples dedicated to Goddess Andal, the only female among the twelve Alwar saints. This is the birthplace of Saint Andal and houses both Andal and her consort Lord Rangamannar (Vishnu). The temple is famous for its magnificent 192-foot tall gopuram, which is depicted on the Tamil Nadu state emblem. Andal is revered as the incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi and is particularly worshipped by young women seeking good marriages. The temple is a Divya Desam and holds immense significance in Vaishnavite tradition. The Thiruppavai and Nachiyar Tirumozhi composed by Andal are recited here with great devotion.
🏛️ Architecture & Heritage
Pandya-Nayak Dravidian Architecture (8th Century CE (Saint period))
Magnificent 192-foot gopuram (Tamil Nadu state emblem), devotional poetry inscriptions, marriage blessing architecture, divine feminine design elements
Andal and Rangamannar deities, Thiruppavai and Nachiyar Tirumozhi texts, marriage blessing items, devotional poetry materials, state emblem gopuram
🎉 Festivals & Celebrations
Andal Jayanti: July-August, Thiruppavai Festival: December-January, Marriage seasons: Multiple times per year
Devotional poetry recitation events, marriage blessing ceremonies, divine feminine celebrations, bhakti spiritual programs
Winter Thiruppavai season, summer marriage blessing festivals, monsoon devotional programs, year-round bhakti activities
🙏 Rituals & Traditions
Devotional poetry recitation rituals, marriage blessing ceremonies, divine feminine worship, bhakti surrender practices
Thiruppavai recitation traditions, marriage blessing customs, devotional poetry practices, divine feminine worship methods
Devotion-blessed prasadam including marriage blessing offerings, fertility items, devotional poetry materials, and divine feminine empowerment aids
👕 Visitor Guidelines
Traditional South Indian attire preferred. Sarees particularly auspicious for women seeking marriage blessings.
Good accessibility with facilities for women devotees and marriage ceremony participants.
🎥 Videos
🕉️ Divine Snapshot
Goddess Andal and Lord Rangamannar
Andal-Vishnu Temple
5:30 AM – 12:00 PM, 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu
Andal Temple, Srivilliputhur, Virudhunagar District, Tamil Nadu 626125, India
✈️ How to Reach
Madurai Airport (75 km)
Srivilliputhur Railway Station (2 km)
Srivilliputhur Bus Stand (1 km)
By Road: Connected from Madurai and Virudhunagar. Divine feminine temple with marriage blessing significance.
🏨 Accommodation
Various accommodations available in Srivilliputhur and nearby areas.
🗺️ Nearby Attractions
Courtallam Waterfalls, Meghamalai Hills, Western Ghats, Virudhunagar attractions, and devotional heritage sites
🙏 Associated Deities
🎧 Audio Guide Available
Audio guide is available for this temple to enhance your spiritual experience.