Mambaram (sometimes Mampuram) is a Muslim pilgrimage centre located 26 km. east of Tirur, Malappuram district, Kerala, South India on the Malabar Coast. Mambaram is famous for the Mambaram Makham, which is the shrine intended and used primarily as a receptacle for the dead bodies of the principle Thangals. The Mambaram Nercha, is held every year in the month of Muharram near the tomb of Sayyid Alavi Thangal, the famous Mambaram Thangal.