Stickerji Souvenir Wooden Fridge Magnet | Shore Temple

This small wooden magnet doesn't try to compete with the real thing — a granite structure that has faced down the Bay of Bengal for well over a thousand years. The Shore Temple was built in the 8th century under the Pallava dynasty, making it one of the oldest structural stone temples anywhere in South India, carved entirely from solid granite blocks. It's part of the UNESCO-listed Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram, but unlike most Pallava sites, it sits directly on the coastline rather than inland — and uniquely houses two shrines back to back, one facing east toward the sunrise over the sea and one facing west.

A fitting keepsake for early risers who caught sunrise breaking over the Shore Temple, or for anyone who spent a morning among Mahabalipuram's rock-cut monuments on the Tamil Nadu coast.