English: Thalakkulathur Temple in Kozhikode. Northwest view. This is the 1900 photograph of an 8th-century Hindu temple with Chera architecture, restored with paddy stalk roof in the 19th century. A stone inscription found here is from 883 CE, which implies this temple was built much earlier and was thriving in the 9th-century. The temple complex has also been a source of hero stones. The contemporary temple's roof and many sections are new however, after it was restored again as the roof and other sections of the old temple was destroyed in a fire in 1969.