Jainamedu is a suburb or neighbourhood of

Palakkad Palakkad (), Renaming of cities in India, also known as Palghat, historically known as Palakkattussery, is a city and a municipality in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of P ...

city,

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

, India, and is located on the southern banks of the Kalapathy River. It is one of the western suburbs of Palakkad and is ward 51 of Palakkad Municipality. It is best known as the 15-century

Jain temple A Jain temple, Derasar (Gujarati: દેરાસર) or Basadi (Kannada: ಬಸದಿ) is the place of worship for Jains, the followers of Jainism. Jain architecture is essentially restricted to temples and monasteries, and Jain buildings ge ...

and is one of the few places in Kerala where the vestiges of

Jainism Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religions, Indian religion whose three main pillars are nonviolence (), asceticism (), and a rejection of all simplistic and one-sided views of truth and reality (). Jainism traces its s ...

have survived. Once, there were around 400 Jain families in Palakkad, but now only a few of them exist.

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{{Reflist Palakkad Suburbs of Palakkad Cities and towns in Palakkad district