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{{Infobox Hindu temple
|name = Kālikāmbāl Temple
|image = Kaalikaambaal Temple Main Entrance, Chennai.jpg
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|caption = Kāligāmbāl Temple's Gopuram (Gateway tower) entrance.
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|map_caption = Location in Chennai

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|country = [[India]]
|state = [[Tamil Nadu]]
|district = [[Chennai]]
|locale = Thambu Chetty Street, [[George Town, Chennai|Parry's corner (Old: George Town)]], [[Chennai]]
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|deity = Kāligāmbāl ([[Parvathi|Goddess Pārvathi]])
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|architecture = [[Hindu architecture|Hindu temple architecture]]
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|established = 1640 
|year_completed = 1678 
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The '''Kālikāmbal Temple''' is a [[Hindu]] temple dedicated to Shri Kāligāmbāl ([[Kamakshi|Kāmākshi]]) and [[Shiva|Lord Kamadeswarar]], located in [[George Town, Chennai|Parry's corner (Old: George Town)]] locality of the city of [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]. The temple is located in Thambu Chetty Street, a prominent financial street at Georgetown, running parallel to [[Rajaji Salai, Chennai|Rajaji Salai]].

== History ==
The temple was originally located closer to the sea shore and was relocated to the current site at 1640 CE. It was then built in 1678.<ref name="ChennaiBest_History1639-1700">{{cite web
|title=1639 A.D. TO 1700 A.D.
|work=History of Chennai
|publisher=ChennaiBest.com
|url=http://www.chennaibest.com/discoverchennai/sightseeing/history/1639.asp#1
|access-date=20 Jan 2013
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009120706/http://www.chennaibest.com/discoverchennai/sightseeing/history/1639.asp
|archive-date=2012-10-09
}}</ref> [[Shivaji]], the Maratha warrior and the founder of the Hindawi-Swarajya in the 17th century, had worshiped in this temple incognito on 3 October 1667.<ref name="TOI_ChennaiHigh">{{cite news
| title = Chennai High: Where history beckons
| location = Chennai
| date = 27 August 2010
| url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-08-27/chennai/28292743_1_pillars-fort-st-george-madras/2
| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130216064735/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-08-27/chennai/28292743_1_pillars-fort-st-george-madras/2
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = 16 February 2013
| work = [[The Times of India]]
| access-date = 20 Jan 2013}}</ref><ref name="Muthiah_2014"/> It is believed that a fierce form of [[Goddess]] was held in worship earlier and that this form was replaced with the ''shanta swaroopa'' (calm posture) form of Goddess Kamakshi. Tamil poet [[Subramaniya Bharathi]] was a regular visitor of the temple in the early 20th century.<ref name="Muthiah_2014">{{cite book | last = Muthiah| first = S. | author-link = S. Muthiah | title = Madras Rediscovered| publisher = EastWest | date = 2014 | location = Chennai | pages = 384 | isbn = 978-93-84030-28-5}}</ref>

[[File:Kaalikaambaal Temple Gopuram, Chennai.jpg|thumb|none|The main Gopuram (tower) of Kālikāmbāl Temple]]

In the 1980s, a new 10-metre-high tower (''rajagopuram'') was added to the existing structure.<ref name="Muthiah_2014"/> Another major expansion was made in 2014.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

==See also==
{{Portal|India|Hinduism}}
* [[Religion in Chennai]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090311072217/http://chennaisrikaligambal.org/ Chennai Sri Kālikāmbal Kamadeswarar Devasthanam]

{{Chennai topics}}
{{Places of worship in Chennai}}
{{Hindu deities and texts}}
{{Worship in Hinduism}}
{{Shaivism}}
{{List of Hindu temples in Tamil Nadu}}

[[Category:Hindu temples in Chennai]]

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