Ramanathaswamy Temple, Rameswaram

The stunning pillared hallway at the Ramanathaswamy Temple in Rameswaram that lines its perimeter is generally believed to be the longest in India. Its outer set of corridors is 6.9 m in height and stretches for some 400 feet to the west, as many feet to the east and some 640 ft to the north and south. What makes the corridor even more awesome is the fact that it is held by over 1200 pillars, each of them being 30 ft tall and most have compositions carved on them. Rameswaram’s Ramanathaswamy Temple also boasts of 22 theerthams (or tanks) where devotees bathe before paying their respects to the presiding deity, Shiva. It is also home to Spatika lingam, one of the 12 jyotirlingas.