Ever since I introduced into
the concept of World Wide Web, i thought of developing a web site which
gives valuable information to everyone. I have uploaded my own Home
Page in early 1999 in Yahoo Geocities!, just to make an online identity
for me as all others does. The idea behind this site "The Kerala Temples" comes from a mail from an unknown, which i have found in my mail box. That mail
was from a foreigner where he wanted to visit kerala for pilgrimage.
He was guiding me to do something useful for everyone instead of working
on my own Home Page. There strucked the idea !!!
Its true that we are neglecting our 1,000+ year old culture, where
all other countries cherish their culture. Why its so??? Why we indians
dont care for our own culture, where our culture receives respect from
other countries even???
Coming back to Temples in Kerala, It has valuable stories and secrets
to tell, but here no one wanted to hear. We are ignoring all our cultural
values and rich traditions. I scare that if we continue to ignore,
coming generation may completely forget our values and traditions.
The Temples in Kerala has been all the time an amazing factor for its
uniqueness in structure, rituals, customs, offerings, festivals and
all. Some of these are even connected with our great epics Ramayana
and Mahabharatha. The national agenda for us, therefore, shall be to
preserve and nurture this invaluable tradition that has been bequeathed
to us from time immemorial and thereby to uphold the greatness of our
culture. I have been receiving number of queries regarding the temples
of Kerala, the pooja timings, special offerings etc., mostly from the
people abroad. This points out that the temple, especially in Kerala,
has been more and more relevant than ever it was. It is on this account
that I have made a humble and sincere effort to introduce and give
details regarding our temples to the aspirants anywhere in the world,
through web media.
Frankly speaking, there are no such sites still developed to give full
information of all temples situated in Kerala. Here I am introducing
more than 1500 temples in front of you. Not only by just giving its
name, but also you can have comprehensive information about temples
in kerala like temple photo, places, offerings, specialties and much
more.
The Site "The Kerala Temples.com" is
designed for giving every information about all the temples in Kerala.
I know it is not an easy task nowadays to gather information about
ancient temples in Kerala. But I take it as a challenge
Site Contains around 1500 temples in Kerala
- Temple Offerings
- Temple Routes
- Temple Specialities
- Temple Festivals
- Temple Pooja Timings
- Temple Know more
- Temple Architecture
Famous Temples
- 108 Durga Temples
- 108 Vishnu Temples
- 108 Siva Temples
- 108 Sastha Temple
Know more each deities
Believe it or Not - Special Offerings
Road maps
Photo Gallery
Slokas, Sthrothrams & Pancharathnamala
and many more.....
In addition to that, you can also access our "Know
More" facility, which gives more information about temples, special topics and hot
information.
Identifying
temples : Listing out all temples in kerala is a tremendous task. There is no single point
source exists where we will get all names of temples exists in kerala.
There are so many ancient temples exists in kerala where we don't
have any source of information.
We started from scratch, listing all registered temples from devaswam
boards and authenticate books available in the market. There exists
other temples also, which are not listed devaswam board. The temples
which are owned by particular family or village. We tried to include
those temples also.
Duplication of temples is another challenge we faced. Most of temple's
name associated with place of the temple or speciality of that particular
temple. Main problem we faced is that conversion of temple names from
Malayalam to English. And we tried our maximum to reduce duplication
of temples. More and more temples keep on adding in this site.
Collecting and Authenticate information
: Next process was gathering information of temples which we have listed out. We
have collected information by visiting those temples, known facts,
discussing with authentic persons in temples, books available in the
market and also web sites of famous temples also. Its true that we
have searched in web for knowing information and we tried to scrutinies
it for its perfection. We have tried maximum to ensure atleast mandatory
information of temples are ensured in this site like temple place,
temple route, temple deity and its description.
The major challenge we face here is the authenticity of the information
we provided. Even its sounds easy, its not at all an easy-go procedure
to authenticate what we have. We are trying our maximum to provide
authenticate information through this site.
Online identity (space in net) : The
first version of this site was uploaded in web named www.kerala-temples.com.
That project was started in early 2001 with low cost budget. Due to
inactivity of the site and inability to extend the paid service for
domain, we have forced to remove the site from server.
The second version of the site, with much more rich data and technically
best have been uploaded in Googlepages.com server in the year 2008,
which comes free from Google. Thanks to googlepages for providing web
space with identity in web.
The third version of this site (the site you are seeing now) is uploaded
in 2009 with our own unique domain www.thekeralatemples.com
Promoting the site (Search Engine Submission)
: The next challenge we faced was promoting our site. Obviously, ultimate aim of
a web site is accomplished only if it is being listed in search engines
and reachable to all intended visitors. We have successfully submitted
the same web site into Google Search Engine and regular monitoring
is being done. This site is Search Engine Optimized and complies Google
Web master guidlines. Almost all pages of this site has been indexed
in google search engine. We have successfully submitted our web site
into other search engines like Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, Alltheweb etc.
More and more pages are adding to this site day by day. We also solicit
your co-operation by giving us the details of temples, other than provided
in our web, within your knowledge. It is only your magnanimous patronage
that really translates our ambitions to reality. We are beholden to
you for your kind helping hand in this noble venture. Visitors can
submit temple details to us, so that we can update it in our site.
Those who wants to submit temple details in one simple step
Sreejith Nangeelil
Design, Content & Development
Contact : templeskerala[@]gmail.com
I am bringing out this site
containing useful informations of the temples of Kerala for the devotees
of Kerala as well as others. My gratitude goes to the one and all who
worked behind this, promoters by giving their valuable help, advices,
informations, reference books etc.
I have tried my level best to bring out this site with correct information.
- Kshethra Vignanakosam, DC
books
- Maha Kshethrangalude Munnil, DC books
- Kerala Temples, DC books
- Kshethra Chaithanya Rahasyam by Madhav ji
- Sree Padmanabha Swami Temple,Bhavans
- Kshethracharangalum Vrathanushtanangalum, Sreepadham
Intention
Behind this Site
The site “The Kerala Temples” is built up to share information about
temples in Kerala. This site can be treated as a knowledge sharing
area of kerala temples, rather than a travel guide portal. Since both
sounds similar, I am very clear on my intention, which is nothing but
to cherish our valuable temple culture in Kerala. This project does
not deal with any sort of business by tour packages or travel guiding.
It is true that maintaining a site is cost oriented, even though I
am putting my initial effort to build this site. Those who are all
interested to offer a helping hand are most welcome.
How site is arranged The
site is arranged in such a way that, one could browse particular temple
by selecting the particular deity. I have classified the temples according
to presiding deities namely Ayyappa Temples (Sastha Temples), Bhagavathy
Temples (Devi Temples), Dhanwanthari Temples, Hanuman Temples, Lakshmana
Temples, Mariyamman Temples, Muruga Temples, Naga Temples (Sepants),
Narasimha Temples, Pandavas Temples, Siva Temples, SreeRama Temples,
Vinayaka Temples (Ganapathy Temples), Vishnu Temples (Krishna Temples),
VishnuMaya Temples. The temples those have rare deity (not in common),
we have put into others temples group.
I have allotted unique page for each temples, so that visitors can
get all details of particular temple at a time by visiting the page.
Individual page consists of Temple name, location (district, thaluk,
village), deity, festivals, main offerings, specialties, temple history,
detailed descriptions, temple thanthri name, trustee, temple address,
photo and route to reach the temple. I hope those details are sufficient.
Apart from these find time to visit "know
more" page of this site, where it contains lots of known and unknown facts related
to temples and its offerings. “Know more” page of this site is the
perfect knowledge sharing area for temples, its rituals, customs, traditions,
offerings, specialties, unbelievable facts
Turn ON
> Identifying and describing about each temples in kerala
> Reveal the secrets and unknown facts related to temples in kerala
> Sharing unique and special offerings of temples
> Understanding origin and history of each temples
> Cherishing ancient culture of temples and help others to know better
Turn OFF
> Travel portal/guide
> Tour packages
> Marketing or Tour Brokerage
> Tour and Hotel Accomodation
I hope you got the clear intention behind this site !!!
