Places of interest

Tharamangalam is famous also for its beautiful and historic Kailasanathar temple. The exquisite stone carvings of the Yaali ( mythological dragon) having a stone ball inside its mouth- you can put your finger inside and rotate that ball- all made of stone. And then the Manmathan looking at Siva and Parvathi, where if you look from Manmathan's side both Siva and Parvathi are visible and if you look from Parvathi's side, Manmathan is not visible since he is supposed to be hiding from Siva's view. One has to see it to believe it.

Every year on February 21, and the consequent 3 days, a great architectural wonder occurs in the temple. During Sunset, the rays of the sun travels down through the front Gopura which is also the entrance gate and through a small hole in the nandi sanidhanam and travels across the front plane to fall directly onto the sivalingam. The movement of the sun beam can be witnessed as it progresses across the whole front area just like a beam of light. The yellow light of the sun makes the lingam glow.

In the temple there is a tunnel which joins any temple in Amaragunthi, which is almost 2km from tharamangalam. Right now the tunnel is close because of the security reason.

Karukkalvadi is a small village in Salem district of Tamil Nadu, India. The village is coming under Tharamangalam Union. Karukkalvadi means Lord of Maariamman. Other nicknames of this village are Karkkisvarar. Salem is nearest city (12 km) for well connected with Tharamangalrm road. Every half an hour public buses and private buses help to commute the people between Tharamangalam and Salem. This village has one government primary school, and a government hospital with decent space and buildings. The schools and Hospital are very good in facilities when compared to surrounding villages. It has very small public library and had very good movie hall but it was closed few years ago because of some financial reason.

Coir is most important business. Mostly Vanier community people doing the Coir business or they shown the way to other community people to follow the Coir business. On every week of Monday weaver gets weekly wages and they will do their purchases in nearby weekly market. Sri Kaarkisvarar temple, Sri Marriamman and Sri Selliamman temple, Sri Subramaya swamy temple and Perumal and Sri Iyyappan temple are major temples. Sri Marriamman and Sri Selliamman festival celebrated every year without fail. Whole village get the new color on those festival days. Sri Marriamman and Sri Selliamman festival is celebrated in the month of April 1st weak. The people belong to celebrate this festival and it is a 4 to 5 days festival having lots of activities like Knife dance (Kathi Dance), Sakthi, Jyothi etc.