The low caste worship places were open areas, and the deities were installed on a small platform often inside a grove.Kerala earlier had thousands of such sacred groves that were destroyed either by modern culture or by sanskritisation.The sacred groves were sanskritised by building temples on the model of high caste temples over the original installation of the deity on the platform.Often the groves themselves were destroyed to build temples and square shaped buildings called nalukettu around the temples.

A low caste person will have a right in the key annual celebrations of the temple, such as performing rites for the flag ceremony or performing the first pooja to begin the celebrations of the temple or lightining the first lamp on the veve of the celebrations or holding the lamp in front of the procession tec.