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Ramanathaswamy Temple

Rameswaram, Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu Shaiva tradition

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

Photograph

Earliest republishable photograph in this record.

Color photograph of a long pillared corridor at the Ramanathaswamy Temple, Rameswaram.

Pillared corridor

A corridor of the temple on Rameswaram island.

30 May 2013 Vensatry, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source and license

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What changed?

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  • Identified from a secondary account This line records the published identification only. It does not add a construction date or a height. Date not established in this corpus · Documented fact · Medium confidence

Evidence summary

Counts are records in this corpus, including gaps.

1 Republishable photographs
0 Interior photographs
0 Diagrams
1 Documents

About the temple

Ramanathaswamy Temple stands on Rameswaram island. Secondary accounts list it among the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines and among the Tevaram sites. The story that Rama installed the lingam is tradition. It is not stored here as a dated building event.

Primary deity: Shiva as Ramanathaswamy

The present corridors and towers are not dated from a source ingested here.