The Ayyappan Temple has a long and rich history attached to it which goes back all the way to the year 1942 when some devotees of Lord Ayyappa formed a small pooja group and started performing bhajans in dedication to the Lord in a little makeshift place. During the time of the traditional mandala pooja, they also began to perform the Ayyappan Vilakku Pooja before commencing the Sabarimala Yatra. With the passage of time, the number of devotees involved in the pooja group grew and finally in the year 1955, they decided to register themselves under the name of 'The Coimbatore Sree Ayyappa Seva Sangam'.This endeavour to do something for the Lord did not stop here, and in 1958, a land was acquired at Siddhapudur to build a temple. Devotees installed a portrait of Lord Ayyappaswamy in the temple, while a noble industrialist, Sri Narasi Thulasidas, provided a shed to the temple. It was, however, only in 1966 that the construction of the temple began properly and in full swing, with Brahmashri Kanippaiyur Shankaran Nambudhiripad drawing a complete chart of the temple and specifying the dimensions, measurements and symmetrical structure of the temple. The same chart also prescribed the location, measures and dimensions of the place where the idols of the other gods, namely Lord Vinayagar, Goddess Durga Devi, Lord Sri Murugan and Lord Sri Maha Vishnu were to be installed.At last, on 24 March in 1969, the first Kumbhabhishekam ceremony took place at the temple under the guidance of a team of priests led by Palakkattillathu Periya Neelakandan Nambudhiri. In 1972, a Kodi Maram or Dhwajasthambham was installed in the temple premises, which was later on covered with pure gold. The Ayyappan Temple is the only temple in Tamil Nadu to have such a Dhwajasthambham.Later developments and improvements in the temple include the construction of a community hall, covering the tiled roof above the sanctum sanctorum in copper and the Kalashams with gold, and the completion of a Rajagopuram in black stones. The temple also operates a goshala and maintains a beautiful flower garden on the premises.