Meenakshi Amman

A vast temple city in Madurai dedicated to the goddess Meenakshi and her consort Sundareswarar, a form of Shiva. Famed for its towering gopurams covered in thousands of vivid sculptures and its hall of a thousand pillars, the present structure dates largely to the 16th and 17th centuries under the Nayak rulers. It remains one of the great living centres of Tamil worship.