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Go for the glass. The rare stained panels inside this minor basilica on Pondicherry's south boulevard depict events from the life of Christ and from the lives…
The local name gives away more than the official one. People call it Samba Kovil, which is what Tamil speakers made of Saint Paul's Kovil, kovil being the…
Villianur's temple answers to three names — Thirukameeswarar, Kokilamba-Kameeswarar, or simply the Villianur temple — and covers two acres behind concentric…
Unusually, the temple is not for a god but for a devotee: Punithavathi, the Shaivite saint and Nayanmar remembered as Karaikal Ammaiyar, the revered mother of…
This Ganesha temple predates the French, and it very nearly did not survive them.
Nothing in Karaikal stands taller. The tower went up in 1891 and reaches 133 feet, which makes this the easiest building in town to navigate by, and it faces…
Mass here is said in French, Tamil and English, the only church in Pondicherry city where all three are on the schedule.
Not many parish churches carry a papal decree. Pope Leo XIII ordered the coronation of the Marian statue at Villianur in February 1886 and declared the site…
The story worth carrying in is the opening feast. When Kanakaraya Mudali, the longest-serving dubash of the French East India Company, built this church in…
Most people arrive for Shani. The dedication is to Shiva as Dharbaranyeswarar, but the temple is better known as Tirunallar Saniswaran, and the Shani shrine…
The village changed its name, which is worth knowing before you ask anyone for directions: Tiruttelicheri is Koilpatthu now, out on the periphery of Karaikal.
A five-tiered rajagopuram marks the entrance, and the granite wall behind it encloses every shrine.
What stands here is a second act. French troops and local people destroyed the temple during riots between Hindus and Christians in 1748, and forty years…
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