Work
Meenakshi Amman Temple
Explore in the Atlas →Largely rebuilt by the Nayak dynasty in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, its towering polychrome gopurams and concentric temple-city plan, ordered by the Shilpa Shastras, exemplify mature Dravidian architecture.
Ritual Settlement Fantasy
Details
- Type
- Building
- Location
- Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Revelation cosmology
- Subject
- Human centred
- Cosmological orientation
- MandalaAxis mundi
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- ApprenticeshipText drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- South asian
Connections
- exemplifies Dravidian Temple Architecture
Sources
- George Michell. The Hindu Temple: An Introduction to Its Meaning and Forms. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
- Crispin Branfoot. Gods on the Move: Architecture and Ritual in the South Indian Temple. British Academy, 2007.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Meenakshi Amman Temple." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/meenakshi-temple/. Accessed July 17, 2026.