Served from the stored corpus. Last scan Sep 28, 2026. Next scan Oct 28, 2026.
“Sthanu, Mal, and Ayan — Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma — named together in one shrine.”
Historic photograph · exterior · January 1989 · High confidence
Earliest photograph in this corpus that can be republished. It shows the eastern gopuram from the street and a tall wooden temple car. It does not show the tank or the interior.
Ziegler175, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Source: Suchindram temple and temple car, 1989 · Open source
Photograph · exterior · 30 December 2006 · High confidence
Close view of the white sculpted tower, its finials, and the figures along the sides.
Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Source: Thanumalayan Temple gopuram, 2006 · Open source
Photograph · exterior · 18 March 2007 · High confidence
Public-domain view of the sculpted eastern tower, one palm, and entrance buildings in the foreground. It does not show the tank or the interior.
RajuSaravanan, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Source: Thanumalayan Temple, Suchindram · Open source
Photograph · exterior · 7 September 2008 · High confidence
The tank and the mandapa standing in the water. The main gopuram is outside this frame.
Vishakrs, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Source: Thanumalayan Temple pond, 2008 · Open source
Photograph · exterior · 3 January 2021 · High confidence
Wide view across the tank. The gopuram and the mandapa in the water are both visible.
Balurbala, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Source: Suchindram temple with pond, 2021 · Open source
Interpreted diagram · exterior · Drawn for this corpus, 2026 · Medium confidence
No file is stored for this record.
Simplified elevation. The tower follows the photographs. The tank is visible in the 2008 and 2021 frames. Hall positions are still not taken from a survey.
HeritageVista interpretive diagram. Not a historical drawing.
Interpreted diagram · general · Drawn for this corpus, 2026 · Low confidence
No file is stored for this record.
Top-down reading of published relationships. It is not a floor plan from a survey.
HeritageVista interpretive diagram. Not a measured plan.
Interpreted diagram · general · Drawn for this corpus, 2026 · Low confidence
No file is stored for this record.
Block model of the same features as the elevation and site diagram. Heights and depths are arrangements. The tower steps are not a storey count and are not a measured height.
HeritageVista interpretive massing. Not a measured model.
encyclopedia · Retrieved 2026 · paraphrased
The article describes an east-facing complex, an eastern tower it counts as eleven storeys and about 44 metres, musical pillars in the Alankara Mandapa, a large Hanuman, and later Nayaka and Travancore work. It also gives more than one account of who administers the temple. Those statements are stored as secondary claims.
journal · 2017 · paraphrased
The paper describes an east-facing temple, a seven-storey gopuram, musical pillar groups (its count of the smaller pillars differs from other guides), and a Hanuman figure it describes as over 16 feet. It is used as a conflicting description of the same features, not as a survey.
monograph · 1953 · referenced_only
The standard monograph is identified and reserved. No chapter has been extracted, so no claim in this PoC is footnoted to a page of the book.
inscription · Reported from about the 9th century · referenced_only
Secondary literature reports early inscriptions at Suchindram, including Venad-period records. No estampage or transcript is stored here, so inscriptional claims are not treated as read.
