Annual Festival 2025 | Trikkur Mahadeva Temple Thrissur

വാർഷിക ഉത്സവം 2025 | തൃക്കൂർ മഹാദേവ ക്ഷേത്രം തൃശ്ശൂര്‍ | Annual Festival 2025 | Trikkur Mahadeva Temple Thrissur

The temple is believed to be created by the Lord of fire, Lord Agni. It is also believed that Agni eternally resides alongside Lord Shiva. Due to this, the Ezhunnellath ( the ushering of the deity outside the temple) is never done on rainy days or on the days when the atmosphere is cloudy. Goddess Parvathi too,perpetually resides alongside the Lord Shiva, personifying knowledge. Towards the West side of the sanctum, Lord Ganapathi is engraved on the wall of the cave. On the East side are two Dwarapalakas and on the Mugha Mandapa, resides a Saalagrama, which is said to have immense Vaishnava Chaithanya. It is also believed that this temple was first found by a person, belonging to a class considered untouchable in those days. He had been searching for his cow that had gone grazing, when he chanced upon this cave. He found the cow in the cave along with the magnificent form of Lord Shiva.He immediately ran and reported this to his master, a Namboodiri. The Namboodiri, seeing the magnificent form of the Lord manifested in the cave, performed poojas to him. A floor has been erected in front of the temple, in memory of the man who had first sighted this temple. In the Utsava times, it is on this floor, that Kurathiyattam is performed. Since it was here that the temple was sighted, the village was named Dhrukpuram. (Dhrushti means sight) . Over time, the word Dhrukpuram shortened to Trikkur, goes the myth.

Annual Festival 2025 | Trikkur Mahadeva Temple Thrissur

Caparisoned elephants, melam, fireworks and sheevali are part of the festival. The temple is traditionally decorated with plantain, coconut leaves, flowers, leaves, traditional lamps and lights. Traditional performing arts, music and dance are staged during the period. Hundreds of people arrive on the day to witness various rituals and festivities. The utsava murti of the deity is taken out of the shrine for ritual bathing on the final day. Caparisoned elephants and melam are part of the ritual. The festival is observed in such a way that it ends with Arattu on the Thiruvathira Nakshatram day in Makaram Month.

EVENTS/PROGRAMS
• Melam
• Fireworks
• Sheevali
• Arattu