Namakkal malai kottai

when you say namakkal district what comes to your mind Namakkal egg, poultry, lorry and others as well another important thing for namakkal is this namakkal malai kottai( mount fort) there is a big history for this fort, its at the center of the city look this video completely, you can learn about this fort, its history and how it looks like lets go into the video the namakkal fort in this namakkal city its 246 feet above the sea level, around 75 meters in height you need to climb a bit, since it is under archaeological department they have put a pathway, they are the one maintaining it is situated at the center of the city, nearby you have bus stand, nearby you also have two temples, one anjeneya temple and one ranganathar temple we can see.. 

now we have come to the top of the fort right it is over 246 feet as I said, it will take around 5 minutes to climb this fort Once you come in, a gigangtic entrance welcomes you before that, on the right hand side, a yaazhi(ancient tamil animal) beautiful indeed yaazhi sculpture carved at the entrance many embossed sculptures are there 1,2,3,4,5,6 down.. a girl on top of yaazhi dancing... 

both sides you have this fort was built on 16th century A.D one pallayakarar(polygar in english) built it his name is ramachandra nayakkar a polygar king erected this fort at 16th century on top of this hill after you climb , the entrance welcomes you, a big building is there, lets go inside this is just a room, nothing much here 15 feet x 15 feet , that could be the dimension of this room even no top built on 16th century , you could see they have used red bricks and limestones for construction look slightly damaged.

still you can see them clearly this fort has many places, lets see one by one nice dust bin this place is under archaeological department so they are maintaining it in good shape this fort is slightly broken and ruined as you can see there were many rooms and buildings , and you could see the debris of those there is a temple here what is so special about this fort is a anjeneya(hindu) temple is here and a mosque(islam) temple is also here religious harmony you can say this fort was also under Thippu Sultan and also they have fought many wars with british, lets see about those a complete stone work indeed ahh, we need only these, inscription is here nearby that anjeneya temple, on the right hand side you have a mosque this room is before that mosque, could have been used by the mosque, could have been a storage room it is a very small room but they are using this space recently, could see cement here could smell some birds excreta once a beautiful fort, now some idiots scribble like these nearby we have a mosque, lets see that this fort was under Thippu Sultan, first under Ramachandra nayakkar -a polygar then under Thippu Sultan next to the anjeneya temple this mosque they have kept flowers was this the orignal mosque from beginning , 

no could have been a big one, over the time could have ruined many people coming to this place out of ignorance write their names and demolish this place, remember you are wiping your own history throughout the fort, on the walls you have this gaps there will be holes like this you can see from here, who is approaching patrol men can be here, like in dindigul fort, you can see monitor the whole area you can monitor even kilometers of area look here they could have inserted rifles holes are there, to shoot through rifles it could have been used near by the temple , there is a small pond here also a small pond near the mosque ok, lets look at the history of this fort after the polygar, it came under Thippu Sultan from Thippu Sultan the british conquered this fort at 1769 A.D Thippu Sultan fought with british with this fort as his center After british conquered.

on 1792 A.D Hyder Ali fought for this fort but he was defeated so british were the one who had this fort one important fort but rather a small one 15 to 20 mins you can finish seeing this fort , a small one indeed looks beautiful , it is 01:30 PM here but not much sunny today this namakkal fort is made up of one single stone is a specialty two important temples of namakkal are below this fort one anjeneya temple and one ranganatha temple both these are cave temples and built by a king called kunaseelan at 8th century A.D built by polygars, looks quite strong and majestic they have built it like that, But many people dont visit it , that is sad event though it is situated at the center of namakkal , no one visits here this fort holds many memories and historical traces, you should visit this place it is raining, even nature says no one visits here no protection here, if you are coming here come cautiously i ll give the google description below , a important place to visit in namakkal.