Pondicherry has 250 or more temples. Since March 2026 we have been following fifteen of them through a full ritual year — large and small, old foundations and recent ones, great temples and the street shrines, the theruvu koyils, set among the town's shops. What you see here is provisional: our running field notes which are our live work, research on temple histories and utsavams still in progress, still being written and finessed. The writings we offer are by no means finished or complete.
Each temple's page grows as the year goes on: the festivals and rituals we have been present for, the field notes written there, and in time an illustrated plan of the temple. Follow our work as you would a story still collecting itself, unfolding, and finding its own denouement.
Other temples visited in and around Pondicherry