Ottappalam

This was the centre of political as well as tenant movements in south Malabar of the erstwhile Malabar povince of Madras Presidency. The festival at Chathan Kandar kavu is very famous one in Ottappalam. The legend goes that the temple was built by the local Kanjoor Namboothiri family at a place where a scheduled cast person called Chathan found a stone bleeding while he was sharpening his knife on it. The deity of this temple is Durga. The annual festival is Thalapoli which is celebrated on Avittam day in Meenam (March-April)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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