Shri Gopalakrishna Swamy Temple

Shri Gopalakrishna Swamy Temple is situated at Adityapuram village in Palakkad. The deity is installed in the 'Kaliya Mardhana' (with his right foot placed on the head of a cobra) posture. This makes the temple one of the rarest in India.
Other temples in the vicinity are the Mangala Vinayagar Temple... This year (2019) the curtain rises for Brahmotsavam festival from 11 th of April and car festival is on 19th April.

Adityapuram Sri Krishna Swamy Temple is one of the most beautiful &well preserved original temple structures in the city.This temple was built by Tamil Vadakalai SriVaishnavites who came from Kancheepuram, Thanjavur and Trichy in TamilNadu, when Maalik Kafur commander of Delhi Sulthanate ruthlessly sacked towns of Madurai & SriRangam in 14th century A.D. Next group came when Bahmani Sulthan annexed Kanchipuram in 1480. Third group came after the downfall of Vijayanagara Empire fearing that Bijapur Sultans would convert them to Islam by force. Bijapur Sulthan & Mughals attacked Kanchi & parts of Chennai in 16th century. This village is 700 year old. Adithyapuram,

As Kerala Iyers already followed Advaitha philosophy of Sri Adi Sankara most people never cared about  Sri Ramanujacharya's Visishtadwaitha. Because according to them Adwaitham is very close to Vedas & Upanishads.Though Vedas say about a formless Creator God called Ekam Sath or Brahman. It never denies the right of believers to worship many Gods & Goddesses ie Devas & Devis from Vedic pantheon. But Vedic religion strictly warn people not to make images or idols for worship. Devas & Devis have same divinity. But different duties & functions except Indra. Lord Indra is the most important God in Vedas. Followed by Agni, Varuna, Prithu, Mithra, Soorya, Saraswathi, Savithr, Adithyas, Ashwins, Prajapathi, Rudra, Vishnu. Indrani, Varuni, Prithvi, Saraswathi are the chief goddesses in Vedic religion. Vedas denies existance of hell, heaven or parallel universe. Neither it speaks about judgement day of so called true god. (Punishing God or who God's Wrath) According to Vedas, everything in this universe is madeup from one absolute reality .(All planets, stars, living beings, even Devas and Devis) Devas and Devis exists everywhere. They do all the natural phenomena in universe and exists in everyone's consciousness. So nothing super natural. We pray for confidence, to inspire us to do great things.

The temple & the villages of Adityapuram and Pallippuram was constructed in 14th century by my father’s great great grandfather.He was one of the biggest barons who controlled almost all brahmin villages in today's Palakkad District.A company called 'New India Trading Company' founded by my father's grandfather Adityapuram Krishna Bhattar functioned well at those times.But after the death of my grandfather Late Sri Adityapuram VeeraRaghava Iyer(Note: Iyengar Bhattar changed to Iyer as they wanted to end cold war with Advaitha followers by marrying their women and vice versa)everything ended. This was my father's ancestral house.(see above)Now we are living for some 18 years in my mother's ancestral home in Elappully 13kms southeast of Palakkad city.Her father E.V.RamaKrishna Sastri started a company called 'Scholar Press' in Market Road. He was also a learned and rich man.
He is from  Ashtasahasram sect who follow Adwaitham and wear Vibhuthi Of Lord Shiva. Our mother's ancestors were Shastrikal.Our KulaDaivam is Santhi Durga Parameshwari.

Temple in middle of gramam... silent and calm ☺

Brahmins manage this

Hare Krishna! Calm, Serene temple in Pallipuram Gramam, Palakkad!