Mahatma Gandhi Memorial, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu.

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu.

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial is a monument to honor the father of the nation — Mahatma Gandhi, who played a pivotal role in India’s freedom struggle. 

Kanyakumari has been associated with great people like Gandhiji and Swami Vivekananda — both of who have memorials in this town. 

Mahatma Gandhi who had visited Kanyakumari in 1925 and 1937. It is constructedat a place on the seashore, near to Kumari Amman Temple, where his ashes were kept for public darshan before immersion in the sea on February 12, 1948. The Mandapam is built in Orrisa style of architecture and designed in such a way that on his birthday, 2 October, the rays of the sun, through a hole on the roof, falls exactly on the place where the urn was kept.