Location-first directory
Temples grouped by place, so browsing a town or district feels natural on any device.
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Devalayam — a living database of temples.
A structured, searchable directory of temples covering location, history, festivals and visitor information — kept accurate by the community that knows them best, and readable on a phone while standing at the entrance.
LiveVolunteer maintainedLocation first
Heritage records that volunteers can actually keep up to date.
What it does
Every temple record in one findable place.
Temple information is usually scattered across blogs, images and word of mouth. Devalayam collects it into consistent records: where the temple is, what it is known for, which festivals it celebrates and what a visitor should know before travelling.
The catalogue is only useful if it stays current, so a simple admin workflow lets volunteers add and correct entries themselves — no training, no technical steps.
Find
Search by name, place or deity and land on the right temple without wading through unrelated results.
Read
History, architecture and festival details written in a consistent shape across every record.
Maintain
Volunteers update records directly, so entries age well instead of going stale after launch.
Browse
Fast, image-light pages that load on a slow connection in a town you have never visited.
Key features
Searchable, readable, and easy to keep true.
A directory is only worth building if it is quicker than asking around — and only worth keeping if non-technical people can maintain it.
Fast search across the catalogue
Find a temple by name, place or deity without paging through unrelated entries.
History and heritage records
Each entry carries the story, architecture notes and significance in a consistent shape.
Festival calendar
Festival dates and celebrations attached to the temple they belong to, not buried in a blog post.
Volunteer-friendly admin
Contributors add and correct records themselves, with no technical training needed.
Phone-first browsing
Light pages built for visitors checking details while travelling.
Explore the catalogue
Look up a temple you have been meaning to visit.
Devalayam is live and open to contributors. If your organisation keeps records of this kind, we can build the system around them.