This temple was managed, maintained and protected by peoples of Muthuraiyar / Muthuraja community who believed as ancestors Medieval Cholas.

They all have a fair-sized porch, locally called ardhamandapa attached to the sanctum, both of which are slightly below the ground level in a pit kind of structure.

[1] On the Southern wall of the temple, there is an inscription indicating a tax gree gift of 1.5 ma of garden for the perpetual lighting of the temple by Kachuvan Jatadeva Nilan of Thottiyam village.

[2] Some historians believe that the temple is of Nagara style in the architecture of the vimana among its counterparts.

The sanctum is square in shape measuring 3.7 m (12 ft) and it has a small vestibule leading to a four pillared hall.