The
Tamil Trinity refers to an earlier group of Carnatic music composers who lived about five decades before the well-known
Trinity of Carnatic music Tyagaraja,
Muthuswami Dikshitar, and
Shyama Shastri. The Tamil Trinity composed and sang all their works in the Tamil language. They are credited with developing the
keertana (kriti) form of carnitic musical composition and giving a structured format to
Pallavi,
Anupallavi, and
Charanam in Carnatic music. In 2010, the
DMK-led government initiated the construction of a memorial hall and allocated of land on the
Mayiladuthurai to
Chidambaram highway near Sirkazhi. Construction began on 2 August 2010, and the majority of the work was completed by the end of 2011. The memorial hall was later inaugurated on 20 February 2013 by then Chief Minister
J. Jayalalithaa of the
AIADMK-led government via video conference. == Architecture ==