Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai features 14 towering gopurams, with the tallest reaching 52 meters, decorated with over 33,000 colorful sculptures. Built around 1600, it welcomes 15,000 daily visitors and its complex area is 30% larger than #3 Kashi Vishwanath Temple. The thousand-pillar hall required 400 artists a decade to complete, with pillars producing distinct musical tones when tapped. Its annual 10-day Meenakshi Thirukalyanam festival draws 1 million devotees, which is 90% more than the average temple festival in Tamil Nadu. The main goddess statue weighs 1.2 tons of solid granite.
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