Kattu Narasimhaperumal Temple

The Kattu Narasimhaperumal Temple, also called the Azhagiya Singar temple, stands in Srirangam, the temple island in the Kaveri river. Its presiding god is Narasimha, the man-lion avatar of Vishnu, known here as Varaprasadhi, the granter of boons. Though not counted among the 108 Divya Desams, it is ranked among the foremost Abhimana Sthalams, temples especially dear to Vishnu.

An inscriptional tradition attributes its construction in the ninth century to the Pandyan king Vallabadevan, while local legend claims the shrine is older than the Ranganathaswamy temple, with some dating it to the fifth century.

In the twelfth century the Vaishnava teacher Pillai Lokachariar delivered his discourses on the secrets of the Sri Vaishnava doctrine here. In the fifteenth century Manavala Mamunigal took charge of the temple's administration at the request of the Pandyan ruler Srisindarapandian, who provided for its upkeep.