Nagaraja Temple

Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu Hindu worship of Nagaraja, with Jain figures remaining in the mandapa

Served from the stored corpus. Last scan Sep 28, 2026. Next scan Oct 28, 2026.

“The city’s older name, Nagarkoyil, is explained as the temple of the nagas.”

Editorial summary of the published place-name explanation. Not an inscription.

Photograph
7 January 2007

Temple from outside
A view of the temple at Nagercoil. It does not show the sanctum interior.
Photograph
18 February 2021

Grounds, tree, and serpent stones
Earliest photograph in this record that can be republished. It was taken at the temple and shows a large tree with carved serpent stones around its platform. It does not show the sanctum or a measured elevation.
Document
Retrieved 27 September 2026

Identification note
The article identifies the temple in Nagercoil, names Nagaraja as the presiding deity, and discusses Jain figures and later Hindu shrines. This corpus stores that identification. It does not transcribe the inscriptions the article cites.
Change
Reported 16th century and later

Later shrines are described, not dated from a drawing
Published accounts say Krishna and Shiva shrines were added after the main Nagaraja shrine, and they cite 16th-century inscriptions. This record does not treat those sentences as a measured building sequence.