Village: Iroorpara
Taluk: Thiruvananthapuram
GPS Coordinates: 8°35’ 37.5” N 76° 54’ 21.0” E
Notification Year: 1974
The ancient rock-cut temple at Madvoorpara, Iroopara village, Thiruvananthapuram, dating back to the 9th century C.E., is hewn out at the mid height of a huge granite rock. The temple is facing south-west and has an oblong shrine with a rock-cut linga, an ardhamandapa and a pillared facade. On the left wall of the ardhamandapa a relief figure of Ganapathy, and on the right side, a figure of local chieftain could be seen. This cave temple is of the sandhara type (with a circumambulatory passage inside the garbhagriha). On the front of the pillar, there is an inscription in Tamil language and script.
