Thrissur Pooram

Thrissur Pooram തൃശ്ശൂര് പൂരം
Thrissur Pooram
Official name	Thrissur Pooram (Malayalam: തൃശ്ശൂര് പൂരം)
Observed by	Malayalees
Type	Hindu temple festival Festival/Public holidays in city of Thrissur
Significance	Hindu temple festival
Observances	Kudamatam (കുടമാറ്റം), Ilanjithara Melam (ഇലഞ്ഞിത്തറമേളം), Fireworks (വെടിക്കെട്ട്)
Date	Pooram Nakshatra in the Malayalam Calendar month of Medam
2016 date	April 17
2017 date	May 5

Thrissur Pooram (Malayalam: തൃശ്ശൂര് പൂരം) is an annual Hindu temple festival held in Kerala, India. It is held at the Vadakkunnathan Temple in Thrissur every year on the Pooram (Malayalam: പൂരം, pronounced [puːɾam]) day - the day when the moon rises with the Pooram star in the Malayalam Calendar month of Medam. It is the largest and most famous of all Poorams.

Thrissur Pooram was the brain child of Raja Rama Varma or famously known as Sakthan Thampuran, the Maharaja of Cochin (1790–1805). Before the start of Thrissur Pooram, the largest temple festival in Kerala was the one-day festival held at Aarattupuzha knows as Arattupuzha Pooram. Temples in and around City of Thrissur were regular participants. One day because of incessant rains, they were late for the Arattupuzha Pooram and were denied access to the Pooram procession. Felt embarrassed by the denial, the temples went to the Sakthan Thampuran and told their story.

So in 1798, he unified the 10 temples situated around Vadakkunnathan Temple and organised the celebration of Thrissur Pooram as a mass festival. He invited temples with their deities to City of Thrissur to pay obeisance to Lord Vadakkunnathan, the presiding deity of the Vadakkunnathan Temple.

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