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Place of worship · Mattancherry

Pazhayanur Bhagavathy Temple

A Bhagavathy shrine on Jew Town Road.

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Pazhayannur Bhagavathy Temple is a small shrine in the central courtyard of Mattancherry Palace, the Dutch Palace, on Jew Town Road. Pazhayannur Bhagavathi is the royal deity.

You reach it through the palace grounds, not from the street. Visitors describe entering through an arch from the car park, then a barred gate that leads to the shrine annexe, with a second entrance beside the stairs of the palace museum. Devotees drop donations into a large hundi on the path to that gate.

Entry is for Hindus only, visitors say. The courtyard gets crowded, and in 2026 one visitor watched a ceremony there in which cocks and hens are released.

Did you know

  1. Entering the courtyard of the Mattancherry Palace, a visitor finds a temple dedicated to Goddess Bhagavati, the protective deity of Kochi’s ruling house.

  2. Wikipedia describes the shrine as a small temple in the palace courtyard, dedicated to Pazhayannur Bhagavati.

  3. The shrine of Pazhayannur Bhagavathi stands in the central courtyard of Mattancherry Palace, the building known as the Dutch Palace.

  4. Two other temples on either side of the Mattancherry Palace are dedicated to Lord Krishna and Lord Shiva.

  5. A temple of the royal deity Pazhayannur Bhagavathi is situated in the central courtyard of the Mattancherry Palace.

Drawn from OpenStreetMap, by its contributors.

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