Tirtha Atlas

The sacred geography of the Indic world — every site mapped, dated, storied, and cited.

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Patron

K. Thamboosamy Pillai

2 sites in the atlas name K. Thamboosamy Pillai as patron, across 2 states.

Kuala LumpurSelangorMalaysia
Sites here
2
records naming this patron
Geographic span
Kuala Lumpur · Selangor
from the site records
Structures span
19th–21st c.
the buildings' dates, not the patron's

These centuries are the minimum and maximum of the built ranges of the sites below — several of which have older cores this patron did not raise. The atlas states no dates for the patron: it carries no sourced field for them.

Sites

Sri Mahamariamman Temple, Kuala Lumpur
Chinatown, KL, Kuala Lumpur · Malaysia
founded 1873; present building 1968, gopuram 1972
Batu Caves Sri Subramaniar Temple
Gombak, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor · Malaysia
shrine 1891; 42.7 m Murugan statue 2006

Sources

3 citations across 2 site records. The attribution above is only as good as these.

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derived from the patron field of 2 records · no patron biography is stored or inferred · sources retrieved 2026-08-26