At the town's core is the Ramanathaswamy Temple, one particular with the most crucial temples in southern India. Rameswaram is on an is inside the Gulf of Mannar, connected for the mainland at Mandapam by rail, and by one of India's engineering wonders, the Indira Gandhi Bridge. Ramnathswamy temple was developed within the seventeenth century. Situated near on the sea around the japanese aspect of the island, this temple is famous for its 1200 gigantic granite columns.

The 54 metre tall gopuram (gate-tower), 1220 metres of magnificent corridors and also the flamboyant columns embellish and render fame towards the temple. The fantastic temple of Sri Ramanatha is related by tradition with Keshi. A pilgrimage to Kasi is not regarded as complete without a pilgrimage to Rameswaram. In olden days teams of pilgrims, numerous of them very old, walked massive distance towards the two temples, taking months and years, and some failing to survive the rigours and dangers of such incredibly prolonged journeys. Women and men know this price may well be exacted of them, but they paid it cheerfully.

To assist the pilgrims strolling incredible distances, philanthropists utilized to build relaxation homes at intervals alongside the way. The final of these before Rameswaram was Thangachimadam, a few kilometres away around the island. Modern day suggests of transport have built these resthouses superfluous. But in their time they had been most helpful, even important. The Sethupathis of Ramanathapuram, of which district Rameswaram is an administrative component have been referred to as the guardians in the Sethu", the bridge which, in accordance with tradition, was made for Sri Rama to cross around into Sri Lanka when He set out to recuperate Sita. The Rameswaram pilgrimage has long been a tradition in South India, especially in Tamil Nadu, and has handed into folklore. Quite a few kings of outdated time period themselves on getting planted columns of victory in Rameswaram. Krishna III the Rashtrakuta, inside the tenth century, the Hoysala, Vishnuvardhana, inside the twelfth. It was a king of Sri Lanka who in accordance with inscriptions, created the sanctum from the temple. The temple, which has around the centuries grown into its existing gigantic dimensions, stands on the jap shore of an island, that is shaped like a conch, which Lord Vishnu bears in one of his bands. No discipline is ploughed or oil pressed anywhere inside island. A magnificent railway bridge, around a kilometre long and created on the starting of the twentieth century, linked it together with the mainland. The temple 264m east to west and 200m north to south, and with 3 prakaras, two big gopuras and two more unfinished ones, faces east, a handful of metres through the sea. It consists of two Lingas underneath worship. These are innumerable other shrines and twenty-two "tirthas", or sacred bathing locations.