KADAPPATOOR SREE MAHADEVA TEMPLE Kadappattoor is a small beatutiful village on the banks of Meenachil river near Pala in Kottayam District of Kerala. The village life is centered around a Shiva temple: Kadappattoor Mahadeva Temple. The population consists of Hindus and Christians.

The stone idol of Lord Shiva in Kadappattoor Mahadeva Temple is noteworthy and is unique unlike the idols in other Shiva temples.

The idol was discovered by a woodcutter named Madathil Paachu Nair from inside a large tree on the banks of Meenachil river on 14th July 1960 while he was cutting fire wood. The day was quite unusually stormy with deafening thunder bolts. The wood cutter got quite frightened and jumped into the river as the tree fell to one side and the stone idol of Lord Shiva appeared from that.

The news of appearance of a beautiful Shiva idol from the tree spread like wild fire through central Travancore and people flocked to see the idol. Gradually a temple came up with the efforts of Bhaktas. Initially the temple had a unique architecture resembling North Indian temples.

Recently, in 2006 the temple was renovated and completely remodelled in South Indian temple architure style.