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Sultan Bathery Jain Temple

13th-century Jain temple in Wayanad that Tipu Sultan later used as an ammunition store

Photo: Joseph Lazer · CC BY-SA 2.5 in · Wikimedia Commons

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01 — The story

The Sultan Bathery Jain Temple, first known as the Bathery Jain Temple, stands in Sultan Bathery, a Wayanad town once called Kidanganad. Jains who had moved to the area from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka built it in the 13th century CE, in the time of the Vijayanagara Empire, and it remained an important Jain centre for centuries.

The building measures about 25 by 7.5 m and is 4 m high, with ornate columns and a roof of stone slabs. In the 18th century Tipu Sultan of Mysore invaded the area and used the temple as a store for his battery, or ammunition. It is now protected by the Archaeological Survey of India and forms part of Kerala's Jain heritage circuit.

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02 — About

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