Sri Mariamman Kali Koilou
San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
- Deities
- Mariamman, Kali
- Traditions
- shakta, folk_regional
- Worship status
- active
- Darshan hours
- Varies by season; consult the temple's own management for the current daily schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Year-round tropical climate; Mariamman/Kali festivals in the South Indian folk-Hindu tradition, alongside Diwali (celebrated nationally), are the temple's major occasions.
- How to reach
- At #17 Golconda Settlement, Cross Crossing, San Fernando — Trinidad's second-largest city, in the island's south.
Location
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Sri Mariamman Kali Koilou, in the Golconda Settlement area of Cross Crossing in San Fernando — Trinidad’s second-largest city — is dedicated, per its own name, to Mariamman and Kali, fierce protective goddess forms central to the South Indian (“Madrasi”) Tamil folk-Hindu devotional tradition brought to Trinidad by nineteenth-century indentured laborers, alongside the larger population of North Indian-descended Hindus who form the majority of Trinidad’s Sanatan Dharma community.
This Tamil devotional strand — centered on Mariamman (also venerated as “Maliémin” in the French Antilles) — links San Fernando’s Sri Mariamman Kali Koilou to a wider Caribbean and circum-Atlantic pattern of goddess-temple worship documented elsewhere in this directory, including Temple Changy in Guadeloupe and the historic Hindu temple of Basse-Pointe in Martinique. No founding date, founders, or further institutional history could be confirmed for this specific temple in this pass.
Sources
- historical record: Listed with its address ('#17 Golconda Settlement, Cross Crossing, San Fernando') and a linked Facebook page in Wikipedia's 'List of Hindu temples in Trinidad and Tobago' article. Its name directly names its presiding deities as Mariamman and Kali — South Indian Tamil folk-Hindu goddess forms — consistent with the same Tamil ('Madrasi') devotional strand documented for temples of the same genre elsewhere in this directory's Caribbean coverage (e.g. the Maliémin/Mariamman tradition in Guadeloupe and Martinique). No founding date, founders, or further institutional history was found in this pass.
For review
- Presiding deities (Mariamman, Kali) are inferred directly from the temple's own name as given in Wikipedia's dedicated temple list, which is a reasonably strong basis for South Indian folk-Hindu 'Koilou'/'Kovil'-type temples where the name conventionally states the deity, but this was not independently corroborated by a second, deity-confirming source. No founding date or founders were found.