Pillayarpatti Ganapathi Picture with wooden frame - 14 x 11 inches

Karpaka Vinayaka Temple or Pillaiyarpatti Pillaiyar Temple is a 7th-century CE rock-cut cave shrine, significantly expanded over the later centuries. It is located in Pillayarpatti village in Sivaganga district in Tamil Nadu, India

The Karpaga Vinayaka photo frame available to buy from GiriUK is verily from this shrine that is steeped in history, being one of the 9 ancestral Hindu temples for the Chettiyaars. It is believed that Keeping a frame of this deity in your home facing the North, attracts an abundance of wealth.

The temple has a large colorful gopuram, with large mandapams elaborately decorated with frescoes, many shrines inside, salas originally added for dance and hymns singing, temple kitchen, an architecture that follows the Agamic texts and Shilpa Sastras, and a large temple tank to its north. Most of these were added in later centuries to the core rock-cut cave shrine.