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| name = Badrakali Amman Temple
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| map_type = India Tamil Nadu
| map_caption = Location in [[Tamil Nadu]]
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| country = [[India]]
| state = [[Tamil Nadu]]
| district = [[Virudhunagar district|Virudhunagar]]
| location = [[Sivakasi]]
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| deity = Badrakali Amman
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'''Badrakali Amman Temple''' in [[Sivakasi]], a town in [[Virudhunagar district]] in the South Indian state of [[Tamil Nadu]], is dedicated to the Hindu god [[Badrakali]]. Constructed in the [[Dravidian architecture|Dravidian style of architecture]], the temple is believed to have been built during the 18th century with later expansion during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The temple has a five-tiered [[gopuram]], the gateway tower and a granite wall surrounds the temple, enclosing all its shrines. The temple is open from 6am - 12 pm and 5 - 8:30 pm on all days except during new moon days when it is open the full day. Four daily rituals and many yearly festivals are held at the temple, of which Panguni Pongal and Chithirai Pongal festivals being the most prominent.

==Architecture==
[[File:Bhadrakali Amman, Sivakasi2.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Pillared hall leading to the main entrance]]
Badrakali is a fierce manifestation of [[Parvati]], the consort of [[Shiva]]. Badrakali Amman temple is the most prominent landmark of Sivakasi.<ref name="tourist">{{cite web|title=Visitor attracts at Sivakasi |publisher=Sivakasi municipality |url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/sivakasi/abt_Places%20of%20Interest.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130217233520/http://municipality.tn.gov.in/sivakasi/abt_Places%20of%20Interest.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 February 2013 |year=2011 |access-date=29 December 2012 }}</ref> The tower or Rajagopuram of this temple has a breadth of {{convert|66|ft|m|abbr=on}}, width of {{convert|44|ft|m|abbr=on}} and a height of {{convert|110|ft|m|abbr=on}}. Unlike other temples, the gopuram is not in axial direction towards the sanctum. The presiding deity, Badrakali Amman, is housed in a north facing sanctum to the left of the gateway tower in a seated posture. The [[Vimana (architectural feature)|vimana]] of the shrine is plated with gold. There is a large temple tank and a bell tower located axial to the sanctum. There is an shrine of Heramba Vinayaka, a fierce manifestation of [[Ganesha|Vinayaka]] with five heads. Usually the manifestation is sported with lion as his vehicle obtained from his mother [[Parvathi]]. In this temple, he is sported with his bandicoot vehicle. There are shrines of eight forms of lakshmi in a shrine around the sanctum. There are smaller shrines of other deities like [[Ayyappa]], [[Murugan]] and Agora Murthy located adjacent to the temple tank.<ref name=A>{{cite book|title=Temples of South India|first=Ambujam |last=Anantharaman|pages=181|publisher=East West Books (Madras)|year=2006|isbn=978-81-88661-42-8}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Bhadrakali Amman, Sivakasi1.jpg|250px|thumb|left|[[Pushkarni|Temple tank]] in the temple]]
During the 1800s, [[Nadars]], then aspiring business community, established their commercial base in the town. By the end of the 19th century, the Nadars’ rapid rise as a business community lead to confrontation with the Maravars. The Nadars were holding the ownership of the Badrakali temple and other smaller shrines in the north of the town. The Nadars were denied entry to the [[Kasi Viswanathar temple, Sivakasi|Kasi Viswanathar temple]] and when they tried to enter in 1899, it led to a series of riots which became known as the [[Sivakasi riots of 1899|Sivakasi riots]]. The Badrakali temple was closed for a number of days during the riots and the festivals were cancelled. A total of 22 people were killed, as many as 800 houses and Big chariot in center of the city used by temple during festival were burnt during the riots. Eventually the riots came to an end after the intervention of the military in mid-July 1899.<ref>{{cite book| title=The Nadars of Tamil Nadu| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KZ9mqiLgkdEC&dq=sivakasi+riots&pg=PA118| first=Robert| last=Hardgrave| page=118| publisher=University of California Press| year=1969| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108171000/https://books.google.com/books?id=KZ9mqiLgkdEC&pg=PA118&dq=sivakasi+riots&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EyzoUP7JIoGQ8wSI3IDQCQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sivakasi%20riots&f=false| archive-date=2017-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TS18990801.2.67|title=Current Topics|date=1 August 1899|work=Star|location=Christchurch, New Zealand|page=4|access-date=2009-11-08|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401213104/http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TS18990801.2.67|archive-date=1 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Ritualizing on the Boundaries: Continuity And Innovation in the Tamil Diaspora|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uRxAOJWnyEwC&dq=sivakasi+riots&pg=PA89|pages=89–90|last=Clothey|first=Fred W.|publisher=University of South California|year=2006|isbn=9781570036477|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108170959/https://books.google.com/books?id=uRxAOJWnyEwC&pg=PA89&dq=sivakasi+riots&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EyzoUP7JIoGQ8wSI3IDQCQ&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=sivakasi%20riots&f=false|archive-date=2017-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HzlkWtM9IJYC&dq=sivakasi+riots&pg=PA299|last=Kent|first=Eliza F.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|page=299|isbn=0-19-516507-1|location=New York|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223180957/https://books.google.com/books?id=HzlkWtM9IJYC&pg=PA299&dq=sivakasi+riots&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EyzoUP7JIoGQ8wSI3IDQCQ&ved=0CEcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=sivakasi%20riots&f=false|archive-date=2016-12-23}}</ref>

==Festival==
The temple priests perform the ''[[puja (Hinduism)|pooja]]'' (rituals) during festivals and on a daily basis. There are weekly, monthly and fortnightly rituals performed in the temple. The temple is open from 6 am to 12 pm and from 5 pm to 8:30 pm on all days except during new moon days when it is open for the whole day. Panguni Pongal and Chithirai Pongal are the annual festivals celebrated for the deities [[Mariamman]] and Badrakali Amman in April and May respectively, both of which are celebrated for ten days.<ref name="history">{{cite web|title=Sivakasi History |publisher=Sivakasi Municipality |url=http://municipality.tn.gov.in/sivakasi/abt_Historical%20moments.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130108081250/http://municipality.tn.gov.in/sivakasi/abt_Historical%20moments.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-08 |year=2011 |access-date=2012-12-29 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Bhadrakali Amman temple, Sivakasi}}

[[Category:Hindu temples in Virudhunagar district]]
[[Category:Bhagavathi temples]]

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