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How many years old is the Meenakshi Temple?

How many years old is the Meenakshi Temple?The Meenakshi Temple is 2000 years old.
Built: 11th century.
In the temple city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, on the southern bank of the Vaigai River, is the old Hindu temple known as Arulmigu Meenakshi Sundaraswarar Temple. The goddess Meenakshi, a manifestation of Shakti, and her spouse Sundareshwarar, a manifestation of Shiva, are honored in it. The goddess temple referenced in documents from the 6th to the 9th century CE is located in the core of the ancient temple city of Madurai. This temple is one of the 275 Shiva temples known as the Paadal Petra Sthalams, which are praised in Tamil Saiva Nayanar poetry from the sixth to ninth centuries CE.

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