Temple festivals, church feasts and mosque celebrations across Kottayam district — what’s coming first. Dates for lunar-calendar festivals are confirmed by each temple a few weeks ahead; we mark the ones still to be announced.
Nine nights of Navaratri; Vidyarambham — children’s first letters — on 21 October (Vijayadashami in Kerala). Thousands of families come for the ceremony.
Official details ↗Ten-day festival from Thiruvonam to Rohini; Thrikarthika, the main day, is 24 November with lamps lit across the village.
Official details ↗Temple opens 16 November; Mandala Pooja 27 December; reopens 30 December; Makaravilakku 15 January 2027. Erumely is the traditional route, so district roads and Kanjirappally–Erumely traffic feel it for two months.
Official details ↗Thirteen-day festival; Ashtami on the twelfth day, Arattu on the last. One of Kerala’s great temple festivals — in 2025 Ashtami fell on 12 December.
Official details ↗Pilgrims dance from the Vavar mosque to the Sastha temple — the district’s best-known Hindu–Muslim ritual. Falls two days before Makaravilakku.
Official details ↗Ten-day festival ending on Thiruvathira. The seven-and-a-half golden elephants are displayed on the eighth day. In 2026 it ran 18–27 February.
Official details ↗Ten-day festival in the heart of town, ending with the Arattu procession and the pakalpooram of caparisoned elephants.
Official details ↗Dates are updated as temples and churches announce them. Tell us if we have one wrong.