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Temples Destroyed By Portugese, Dutch, British Barbarians(Evil Natured. By year 1600 to 1900) and now Singala Barbarians
These barbarians came from the europe not to civilise but to divde and conquer our motherland.There has been some disgusting and violent conversions to by portugese under the order of Vatican(ITALY) more later
These are ishwarams(1000 pillars)and are not simple and little temples...
Srilanka
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Muneshwaram Temple
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Muneshwaram Temple is situated about a mile East of Chilaw, a town about 50 miles North of Colombo. This Munna Nathar Shetram, housing Munnai Natharsametha Vadivambikai Ambal, is of very ancient origin, said to have been founded by Brahms for worship by Himself Vishnu Mahendran, Munivars, sages and seers (Dakshana Kailasa Puranam ). The name Muneshwaram is suggestive of it being an 'Eshwaram' or Shivan Temple of the Munivars; as mythology would have it, it is said to have been venerated by Rishi Munivars in the ancient eras. Some claim a foremost place for it because of its name with 'Mun' in front.
The temple was well endowed and gifted with several villages and paddy lands. The reputed wealth of the temple attracted the greed of the Portuguese invaders who looted it and finally destroyed it in 1578.
The temple was restored for worship in 1753. Later it was renovated in 1875, by efforts made by Brahma Sri Cumaraswamy Kurukkal; it was improved in 1919 and further in 1963 with support of Hindus, all over Ceylon. It was renovated recently and a Gopuram was also constructed.
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Thondeshwaram
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The original name may possibly have been 'Thondar - Ishwaram' which became Thondeshwaram; the foreign invaders corrupted it to 'Thondra' or Dondra. During the British era these were 'Dondra' and 'Dondra Head', the 8 southernmost promontory of the Island. Now the locality is known as 'Devinuwara'. A lighthouse has been erected there as the location has, through the ages, been a guide to navigation.
A map drawn by early Greek cartographers found in a library reveal the existence of an Ishwaran Temple here, the towers of which were a guide to navigators. In that temple the principal deity was known as 'Chandra Maul Eshwaran'. on the forehead of the deity was a large precious stone shaped like a crescent.
Portuguese writers refer to a temple here that their army entered and destroyed. It is said that the temple top (probably the Vimanam) was overlaid with golden plates, which reflected the sun, aiding navigators.
To spite the protests of sacrilege by the Brahmin Priests, it is said that the army slaughtered a cow on the top of the main deity of the temple; All this indicates beyond any doubt the existence at the site of a well-established and functional temple, during the 17th century.
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Koneshwaram
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Koneshwaram Temple destroyed -1624
The much-valued Koneshwaram temple was first looted on Hindu New Year Day, Friday the 14th of April 1624. Thereafter, Constantine de Sa razed the temple structure to the ground, blasting some of it into the ocean (remnants of which are being recovered even in the 1990's).
In his dispatch to the King of Portugal, Constantine described: 'The land of the Pagoda is 600 fathoms long and 80 feet at its broadest, narrowing to 30 feet. Regarding the prophetic inscription, he added. 'When I went there to make this Fort, I pound engraved on the Pagoda, among many other inscriptions, one that ran thus: Kulakoddan has built this pagoda...'
A site plan of the temple area prepared by a Portuguese author states: 'On the first rise to the summit of the rock was a Pagoda, another at mid-ascent, and the most famous of them all at the highest eminence.'
With the stones recovered by blasting Koneshwaram temple, the Portuguese erected a triangular fortress, on Kona-ma-malai, which was named 'Pagoda Hill' by them. The fortress lasted only a couple of years.
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Naguleshwaram |
Naguleshwaram
Naguleshwaram was one of the celebrated ancient five Shiva Sthalams known to have existed even before the Vijayan era. It was situated on the northern seacoast of the Jaffna Peninsula, about three kilometres west of Kankesanturai. The ancient temple is now no more, only a rocky cave can now be seen at the site, about a kilometre east of Keerimalai. However, the modern Shivan Kovil at Keerimalai, known as Naguleshwaram, perpetuates the ancient name.
This Ishwaram was destroyed by SLA.
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Nallur Kandhaswamy Temple |
In 948 A.D, Chief Minister to Chola Kulangai Arya, called Bhuvanekabhahu, first built a temple for Lord Kumaran in Kurukkal Valavu in Nallur. In 1450, Senbaha Perumal, the General of Parakramabahu came from Anuradhapura to conquer Jaffna, and destroyed the temple. Regretting his action, in 1457, he tried to make amends by building the temple in Muthirai Chanthai.
During the Portuguese invasion, it was again destroyed. In 1734 it was constructed again in Muthirai Chanthai.
Under Dutch reign, in 1749, due to the efforts of Krishna Subbiah a Brahmin and Ragunatha Mapana Muthaliyar a government official, permission was granted to build the Kumaran temple in its original site in Kurukkal Valavu.
The Muslim community inhabiting the premises was rehabilitated and the temple was built. Due to previous incidents, a simple style was chosen rather than a conventional temple. This is the present site of the temple.
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Thirukoneswaram
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The Temple of a Thousand Columns Even before Buddhism came to Ceylon around 300 B.CE. the rock was sacred to the Hindus, who built at least three temples on or around it.
The largest of these was a colossal edifice known as the Temple of a Thousand Columns; It stood until 1624, when it was destroyed by the fanatically religious Portuguese, during their blood-stained occupation of the country.
The destruction of the temple began on the Hindu New Year's Day 1624, when the Portuguese soldiers disguised as Priests mingled with the worshippers and so entered the sacred precincts.
They waited until the temple was deserted by the New Year's Day crowds, who followed theprocession down the hill and left only a few Priests on Swamy Rock. Then plundering started; probably all those left in the temple were killed, and in a few hours the accumulated treasure of about two thousand (three) years was looted.
Temple to give its proper name was one of the richest in Asia.
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Tamil Nadu(South India)
Goa
Recently Destroyed Temples
Sri Lanka
By Sri Lankan Armed Forces more later
Malaysia
100 year old temples by muslims more later
Pakistan
shri krishna temple more later
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