The temple complex covers an area of 14.5 acres (5.9 ha), measuring 850 feet long and 756 feet wide, and all its shrines are enclosed with concentric rectangular walls, with a massive Rajagopuram.[5] Sangili Mandapam built on 1647 by vadamalaiyappa pillayan connects the Ganthimathi Amman and Nellaiyappar temples.[6] The temple has a number of shrines, with those of Swamy Nellaiappar and his consort Sri Kanthimathi Ambal being the most prominent.The Nandi mandapam has a fairly big statue of Nandi (the bull God), similar to those at Tanjore and Rameswaram . The unique feature of the temple is the Mani manadapam located near the nandi mandapam with two giant pillars carved out of a single stone and each one is having 48 sub pillars which produce musical notes when struck. Tamil poet says that the pillars here are a combination of the Shruti Gana Laya types. Other mandapams in the temple include Oonjal Mandapam and the 1000 pillared hall.

Such a beautiful temple visited ever, an ancient temple and it has lot of sculptures and beautifully painted outside.Musical pillar and Shivas temple is so unique here and people love to visit this temple.Its surrounded by shopping streets and halwa shops along with smaller parking area. You will see many agoris and saamiyar around the temple and city.Must watch temple list in tamilnadu. You will be filled with love and positive energy for sure.

Very good Traditional Temple. You can feel Tamil old cultures.

One of the famous and old temples of south India. Important temple to be visited in tirunelveli district

Amazing place to visit simple and stunning please go through the history of the temple before you step in to the temple

Sculptures are beautiful. Very big and oldest temple. Very big sanidhanam for Lord Murugan.

Nellaiappar Kovil..breathtaking statues and sculptures,such an amazing piece of work,especially the pillar were so unique from rest of the temples...still its a wonder how such pillars were carved out and its heart taking.Nellaiappar and Gandhimathi Amman are the 2 Salient gods to worship!!!Reaching to this temple is bit easy...From New bus stop thirunelveli all moffusil bus and Bus no-2T can be caught to reach the temple..Lots of interesting this to watch out for!!!!Best Pilgrimage destination in Nellai!!

Wonderful place to visit in tirunelveli.Very oldest sivan temple in South part of tamilnadu.

Loved the Temple Sculptures.Elephant was eating Cabbage in the entrance of temple.Had a great time.

Good Temple, the experience was good. The temple priests were very helpful and did not demand any offerings. Nice and calm temple.

Nellaiappar Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the deity Shiva, located in Tirunelveli, a city in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Shiva is worshipped as Nellaiappar (also called Venuvananathar) represented by the lingam and his consort Parvati is depicted as Kanthimathi Amman. The temple is located on the northern banks of Thamirabarani River in Tirunelveli district. The presiding deity is revered in the 7th century Tamil Saiva canonical work, the Tevaram, written by Tamil saint poets known as the nayanmars and classified as Paadal Petra Sthalam.

1. We can see the sculpture of TamilNadu,2. Very oldest temple3. Has four entrances4. Clean and silent temple to worship

Very nice temple and good place to workship. When you enter temple you will feel happiness

Each and every inch is sculptured to perfection, standing still since 7th century. Much visit this place to witness the extraordinary architecture knowledge of our ancestors. Pillars are made of single stone but the sound it creates differs - till date no one knows how they did it. With the current modern technology it will take atleast a couple of decade to get this done.

You can see more than 2000 gods in one Temple. Visit once feel the beauty of architecture

One of the most amazing temples that are a testament to the Tamil history. This one, built by the Pandya rulers in 700 AD, is carved out of stone completely. The intricacy in the craftsmanship is unbelievable. You can see inscriptions about the Pandya rule and about the deities on the wall and on the floor as well, etched into individual blocks.A nominal fee of 5 rupees is charged to enter which is fine considering they have to maintain such a huge temple. Apparently this temple has 5 gopurams and is said to be bigger than the world-famous Meenakshi temple. Just that, it is not as popular as the latter.This temple also has clustered musical pillars which when struck gives you sounds of different musical instruments. You will able to find an elderly local explaining this to people. Speak to the pandits and the locals around to understand the stories and history behind the temple. Its an eye-opening experience because people were soo kind in here.A beautiful place to visit, worshippers and travelers alike, to enjoy the ancient art and architecture that holds a reverence.

Mulavar is arulmegu nellaiyappar. (Eshwaran). But the temple is big. I saw 2 lingam in different names. Ambal sannithi also seperated and big. Pond in mid of the temple. I saw elephant also. I love this place very much. 🙏

One of the oldest and biggest temple in Tamil NaduThis temple is Shiva Bhavan templeDharshan in this temple is very quickThis temple is in TirunelveliErutukadai halwa shop also nearby this templeThis halwa is very tastyBig line for getting tasty halwa very demand

Amazing temple, Must visit this temple. Its very old temple and the architecture very amazing as well as very interesting. Its gives peace of mind here.

Fantastic musical pillarsNellaiappar temple.. TirunenveliOur temples are Marvels of Engineering & technology 🙏. Unsolved mystery of the musical pillar, a cluster of 48 pillars were carved from a single rock & they surround a central pillar, the Pillars can produce the 7 basic musical sounds. Interestingly, surrounding Pillars vibrates when one of them is tapped, they are 161 Pillars in total. See Nellaiappar temple (dedicated to lord Shiva ) Thirukovil, Tamilnadu, Bharat. 7th century AD.

Very beautiful temple i have ever seen. Well maintained. Musical pillars are very unique. So many wonderful statutes here . You must visit this ancient temple atleast once in your lifetime. I felt being blessed by Nellaiappar.

Temple is awesome. Because its located in beach and also it has a wonderful history abiut the idol in temple and a great architecture

This place wonderful of worldCouldn’t imagine how they ended up building thisHope come again and again.

One of the most beautiful temples of Lord Shivaperuman.... God here is named Nellaiyappar and Goddess is Gandhimathi amman..... Temple is very big and has many sub shrines... It is one of the Panja sabais.. Lord Nataraja here is so big and treat to our eyes....

Good Place to see ( Big Temple) and kids can see Elephant at this temple

Blessed, Very old temple and feel the energy. Music piller inside the temple.

Very nice temple. Exquisite granite pillars. Gigantic Vishnu in lying position on the snake bed

I am blessed to visit this temple... Try to visit once in your life... You will have a blessing of lord Shiva and Parvathi....

Need to enhance a lot, cleanliness is missing ., Crowd management must be concentrated

Built in bc by greatest king , Lord Shiva presence in temple makes goosebumps . Really loved it .

Nice dharsan. Big temple. No crowd when I went

Historical place.Can be maintained better.

One of the famous and beautiful temple in South Tamil Nadu. Located in the heart of the city, so the traffic and parking lots are very less. Visit the temple during weekday and enjoy the spiritual blessings and silence across the temple. There is a lot of area to walk around inside the temple. The corridors decorated with beautiful sculpture works are so long that u will feel tired by the time u complete walking around. Must visit place for the architecture.

Nice Temple....The place is filled with full of divine..Usually Not much crowded... Crowded only on festival times..Water facilities are available here...The temple is maintained clean and well....It is a quite bigger temple and takes nearly 1 hour to fully spent here.

Long View of Gopuram will be very awesome..

Very ancient....beautiful place to visit if you believe in God or not that will not stop from mesmerising

Awesome place to view the old sculptures bulit during Roman Times. Inside there is Amman, Ganesha and Nellaiapar temples.

This place is a must Visit for the grandeur and Architecture. A bliss. It will take a whole day to visit the Temple, but at the end of the day you will come out smiling for no where else will u get this kind of calm and quiet. Here the soul is satisfied.

Big and neat temple. The entrance top view has good wood architecture. Lord Siva is main god. You can also see vishnu in sleeping position next to Siva karuvarai. You can see elephant here. Musical beam you can see when entrance of Siva karuvarai. When came of temple, cross the road. You can see famous irrutu kadai halwa.

Nellaiappar temple is one of the most prominent temples located in Tirunelveli. This large temple is known as for its elegant and exotic carvings. The musical pillars are one of the most attractive parts of temple

This is an amazing Temple which Blows up your mind and makes you calm and feel the Grace of God.Many Monuments and sculptures are in this place which will take you to ANOTHER WORLD.If you havent visited this place you have missed a different feel in your life.Visit this temple as soon as possible to Gert an OUT OF THE WORLD EXPERIENCEWith love from,Varun Bhagavath....❤️❤️❤️

Great temple to visit. Sculptures are in a different level. Half day wont be enough to see it all. You can find a pillar structure here that will sound like a metal rod, when you hit it and the sound can be heard even from a nearby similar pillar.

Ancient Shiva Temple for nellaiapper and gandhimadhi.... Very big Temple and lots of stone sculptures... Every year they conducting baby shower function for goddess gandhimadhi.

One of the biggest sivan temple in tamilnadu. This temple is also called as Thamira Sabhai.Musical pillars also in this temple

This is famous temple in Thirunelveli.It was so clean and beautiful place...☺️

Superb experience. We friends were go through bike from Kazhakkoottom. Our expectations are right. Nice temple, giving lot of positive energy. One of architectural wonders. I strongly suggest to visit here once your life time. People of there also needs special mentioning. Very kind and helpful gentlemen.

Tamilnadu oldest temple...Tirunelveli people famous and favourite temple , Nellaiapper name mean by Nellai . This temple architecture such wonderful.temple place at Thamirabarani river . Swamy nellaiapper car festival is important festival in tirunelveli district of Tamil month Aani month. During thaipoosam festival thai. Temple build 700 CE , temple direction EAST. Temple inside Kailasa sikaram.

Highly spiritual and gives great positive vibrations when visiting. 300p + years old temple. The Sri Ranganatha perumal in Sayana Roopam adjacent to Nellaiyappar Sannathi is very nice and gives great positive vibration

Superb temple. The biggest I have ever seen. There is so much of artistic work done in single stones. It is a must visit place.

Very good location... One of the historic temple to visit when in Tirunelveli Town. Also variety of wholesale shops...

Musical pillars - when you start hitting the pillars with bare bands, you will start hearing musical vibrations. MARVEL !!

Divine bliss

Shiva & Vishnu together in this majestically huge temple.. more than the divinity, the temples architecture and carvings are treat to the eyes.. At least half a day required to visit all the sannidhis in the temple when less crowded..

One of the five Sabais. Dedicated to copper. The river here is called as Thamiravaruni. Thamiram means copper. Now a days the river is called as Thamirabarani. Swamy is Swayambu and ambal Gandhimadhi is blesses us with her compassion.

Magnificent and GIVINGOne should faint on seeing the beautiful intricate engineering excellence in the stone pillers. All done much before the invention of metal cutting machines ( leave NC or CNC Machines). How human can make the innumerable pillers, lay them, make leak proof, ventilated, illuminate??????? Some foolish mindless local politicos question whether GODS where engineers.... but this temple alone can depict... the stone work is much above abilities of engineering of the times they were carved.This work is much above that of Pyramids, Bethehem, Rome ( I do not want to antagonise someone) or in line with thiruchedur, madurai, udipi, srirangam in terms of details of stone work.

Had a great Darshan and also enjoyed eating the famous Iruttu kadai Alva.....

Nice statue and sculpture

Please raise more trees around temple to make surroundings cool.

A must see temple. Plan a full day to know its greatness & architecture.

Superb temple. no rules of dresscode. Coming to ola autos they will ask extra amount than ola fares. Ola should take some action on Tirunelveli autos.

One of most popular Devotional palaces in Thirunalvelli

This is not the big temple but another which is near my home. Its a 1000 years old temple, the main deity is Shiva as Arulmigu Nellaiyappar and his holy consort is Parvathi as Gomathy Ambal. Its near the Railway gate.

Very nice big temple. Great carvings that gives peace of mind.

Really Best Place Siva Siva and Gandithimathiammal,.Everybody to go to with family.Temple every area good

Largest temple dedicated to Lord shiva in world. Feels very nice. Beautifully architecture infact mesmerizing!! You need at least half a day to enjoy all the architecture. Lot of hotels available nearby for stay.

This Temple is one of the Most Beautiful Temple I have seen till now in South India, Veryyyyyyyy Beautiful and colourful temple and like other South Indian temple, architecture was mind blowing, so many Lord Statues made outside on temple, and the Statues was also very Beautiful. Amazing Place in Tirunelveli city, and if you are coming to south and want to such a Amazing temple that you must see the beauty of this temple.

Such a divine place I have ever visited.Must visit place 🙏🏼

Nice temple!!! It will take easily an hour or two to complete the entire temple visit.

Devotional land with peace and positivity

Temple was very holistic. Situated very near to Tirunelveli town. There wasnt much space avaialable. So near chariot on rightern side of temple there is minimal parking. So as towards the other side there is another shore backside pothys there you can find ample space to spark. There are 2 idols Lord shiva and ganthimathi amman. It has 5 gopurams.It has1000pillar mandapamOonjal mandapamSomawar mandapamChain mandpaamMani mandapamVasantha Mandapam

Divine place.... Entrance very big nandhi statue.. separate sannathi for Amman Kanthimathi... Elephant 🐘 is there in Koil veli prakaram ... We feel peaceful once visit

Huge artistic hallways. Beautiful temple,serene environment spiritual place to spend .

Beautiful 7th century temple. Great place in center of city or city was centered around temple. Do take your time. It is minimum four hour darshan with full of old history and facts try to find some local guide to know better.

Very ancient temple , cant believe at all that this was hand carvings .Black Rock statue of Vishnu in sleeping posture , need full day to see each pillar.

Very happy that I got Chance to come to this temple, Goddess Kanthimathi and God Nellaiappar Divine blessingsVery nice architecture and sculptures and wooden carvings in the temple entrance. We need one day to see the entire temple such a large temple and workmanship

One of the marvelous temple in Tamilnadu, dont miss the sculptures

Quiet and peaceful glimpses of Sri Nellaiappar, Kantimati Amman, Sri Shanmukan(all six faces with twelve hands) with both consorts and Sri Nellai Govindar in Sesha shayana posture.

Impressive old temple and architecture standing in the centre and watching over the thriving business activities

This is Nellaiyappar koil in Thirunelveli. This is very popular & Powerful. I visited this temple whenever I go to the town. A very ancient temple, and the Lord Shivan and Vishnu is in the same temple which is very rare & astonishment. When u visit here your mind calm down and spiritually automatically..

Best Hindu Religious Ancient Temple #Must Visit This Temple. There Are More Siva Lingaa To Worship

The temple is big. Dont miss to visit Gandhimadhi Amman and Subramaniyar sannadhi.

A beautiful and magnificent temple built by the the great Pandya dynasty.It is surrounded by marvelous sculptures and pillars. Each and every sculpture/pillars makes you wonder how they were built.The temple is located in nellai town where theres no parking around the premises.Nearby you have pothys paid parking and you can park there. The musical pillars give you goosebump, theyre naturally made where they produce sounds when tapped with coins or coconut outer, they produce some string kinda sound.Temple is of large area,where you need patience to walk around temple to explore many things.

The temple is located in the middle of Tirunelveli district. However its not crowded, a quiet n calm place displays the great art work of our ancestors. This ancient temple is a marvellous piece of art.

Beautiful carved temple in heart of Tirunelveli city. Huge temple architecture will surely mesmerize you. Do visit.

Must visit temple

HR & CE layed so much of restrictions to the devotees pointing out one or two reasons like Meenakshi Amman temple fire incidents to all the temples in TN which is not good.If one minister gets red handed with scams, will the entire ministers get resigned or to be desolved the government itself.Then why the government does this, because there is no unity among the Hindus devotees....

Nice temple. Peace of mind🙏

Such a big temple inside the city... Parking outside the temple but bazaar also there so congested parking only... Carvings are amazing... Well maintained temple... blessings of Lord Ganesh by elephant also given...

Must visit Shiva TempleGraceful presence can feelOm Nama shivaya

One of the Most famous temples in South TamilNadu and Biggest among them.The temple premises divided into 2 for Main Deities, Lord Shiva as Sri Nellaiappar and Lord Parvati as Sri Gandhimathi.The temple has lot of special features especially SapthaSwara Pillars,Big Nandi, Single stone Statues in front Mandabam, Lord Shiva worshipping by Lord Vishnu, The Nataraja of this temple marked one among Panchasabha ( ThaamiraSabha).This temple located in Tirunelveli Town. Frequent buses are available from both Railway station and New Bus stop.Must visit temple, sure you will get real blessings of Sri Nellaiyappar.Hara Hara Mahadev..! Om Namasivaya..!

This one of the old Siva temple.The THER(cort of lord) is big one.Courtyard is full of designed paintingsPullers are having small idols, madeOf stone. Stone pullers having differentMusical sounds. Located near to busStand and railway stand.

It look like as like Madurai Meenkshi Amman Temple the difference is lord Vishnu is also inside the temple. Gubara Lingam is new and last but not least is ticket for special entry is 5 rupees only we can see god near .

Amazing temple u can goosebump in gandhimathi statue of sure. U can see musical pillar in this temple.

Awesome place and neatly maintained

A Hindu temple..Located in the tirunelveli City. It is a very big temple interms of land.

Calm big temple. Great flow Divine Energy

Very nice 👌 temple and amazing art.

Nellaiappar temple is a hindu temple dedicated to lord Shiva.Located in Tirunelveli TamilnaduInside temple we can found Wodden art- its one of the rare

Its wonderful temple...cool and calm atmosphere...this is one of wonders in world...located near thirunelveli town...very big chariots are there...

An pleasant temple... With an amazing standing pillars & nice architect by the sangha tamizhans