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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aragon" data-source="post: 5679445" data-attributes="member: 134516"> The Temple of a Thousand Pillars <img src="http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/premchand/koneswaram_700.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (The much newer temple on the same site built in the 1960's after a lapse of some 380 years) On the summit of the Rock, known as the Swami Rock or the Three Swami Rock, was the “temple of unusual size and splendor, renowned through the whole of India,” the temple which was razed to the ground and despoiled by the Portuguese in 1624. It was New Years day of 1624 in Thirukoneswaram. The temple had one thousand pillars and, at that time, esteemed to be one of the richest temples in Southeast Asia. It had in its possession large amounts of gold, pearls, precious stones, and silk, which has been endowed over one thousand years. <img src="http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/premchand/z_p93-heritage3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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