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Nedungolam Alpanamood Shankaranarayana Temple Festival

Nedungolam Alpanamood Shankaranarayana temple is located at Nedungolam near Paravur in Kollam district, Kerala. The shrine is dedicated to the combined form of Shiva and Bhagavan Vishnu – Shankaranarayana. The shrine observes its annual festival on Ashwathy nakshatra in Makaram month.

This is a very small temple which is covered by a banyan tree (almaram).

The annual festival in the temple is famous for procession, caparisoned elephant, melam, Kerala temple art and other rituals and pujas.

The shrine also observes Mahashivratri, Ramayana Masam, Rama Navami and Sri Krishna Jayanti. Thrikarthika is another important festival here.