{"id":77736,"date":"2025-12-13T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=77736"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:40:59","slug":"uchi-pillaiyar-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/uchi-pillaiyar-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Uchi Pillaiyar Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Uchi Pillaiyar Temple Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tamil Nadu government recently informed the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court that the deepam (lamp) was lit at the Uchipillaiyar temple mandapam in Thirupparankundram hill during Karthigai Deepam this year too as it was done for over the last 150 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Uchi Pillaiyar Temple<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Uchi Pillaiyar Temple, also known as<\/span><b> Rockfort Temple<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is located at the <\/span><b>top of Rockfort Hill, Trichy,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>Tamil Nadu.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>7th-century-<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CE <\/span><b>Hindu temple, dedicated to Lord Ganesha.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The temple<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stands 83 metres (272 ft) tall, perched <\/span><b>atop a rock.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trichy Rockfort hill is made of granite that is estimated to be over <\/span><b>3.8 billion years old.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>one of the oldest rock formations in the world.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In comparison, the Himalayas are much younger\u2014they began forming only about 50 million years ago when the Indian tectonic plate collided with the Eurasian plate.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The smooth rock was <\/span><b>first cut by the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pallava-dynasty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pallavas<\/a>,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but it was the <\/span><b>Nayaks of Madurai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who <\/span><b>completed the temples under the Vijayanagara empire.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are <\/span><b>three temples located closely<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the rock fort:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Maanikka Vinayakar Temple<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> situated at the foothill, dedicated to Lord Ganesha.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Uchchi Pillayar Temple at the top of the hill,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dedicated to Lord Ganesha.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Thayumanaswamy Temple<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, dedicated to Lord Shiva, situated close to the base of the rockfort on the way to Uchchi<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Rockfort Temple gives an <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">aerial view of the entire Trichy City <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">along with Srirangam Temple, River Kaveri, and River Kollidam.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/thirupparankundram-row-no-evidence-to-establish-stone-pillar-is-a-deepathoon-says-tn-govt\/article70389498.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uchi Pillaiyar Temple is located at the top of Rockfort Hill, Trichy, in Tamil Nadu. Read more about Uchi Pillaiyar Temple, Location, History, Architecture, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":77710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,4184,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-77736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-uchi-pillaiyar-temple","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}