Vadapalani Sri Murugan Temple and Sri Vengeeswarar Temple, Vadapalani, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

 21^st March 2015.

VADAPALANI - SRI MURUGAN TEMPLE  

We went to Vadapalani Sri Murugan temple on Saturday 21^st March 2015. Last week my wife reminded me to go to this temple after her knee pain was cured. So she wishes to thank Lord Sri  Murugan and offer salt and pepper.  We reached the temple a little late and there was not much crowd, even though it was a holiday. The sanctum was closed after milk abhishekam. Waited and had the darshan of Sri Lord Murugan. Tried to have the darshan at Mupperum Siddhar temple also, but to my bad luck, it was closed. The details of the temple are as follows.

Moolavar : Sri Murugan

Some of the important features of this temple are..

The temple faces east with Rajagopurams on all four sides of which Southside Rajagopuram is the tallest. Temple Tank on the east with a neerazhi mandapam. Dwajasthambam with Balipeedam is at the east side entrance.

In the outer prakaram sannadhi for Sri Ganapathy, Sri Chokkanathar, Sri Valli devasena Subramaniar, Sri Meenakshi, Sri Arumugar, Sri Arunagirinathar, Sri Anjaneyar, Chandran,  Suryan, Madappalli, Kalyana mandapams, Urchava mandapams.  Sudhai sipangal of  Sri Murugan’s story of Palani and Swamimalai in the maha mandapam.

The temple consists of Sanctum, Artha mandapam and maha mandapam. At the entrance of maha mandapam, Ganapathy, Muthukumarasamy, and Idumban.

In the inner prakaram  Suryan, Naalvar, Sri Vaiyapuri Pandyan,  Kasi Viswanathar, Visalakshi, Sri Valli Devasena Subramaniar, Sri Veerabhadra, Sri Naga Subramaniar, Natarajar and Urchavars,  Chandran and Chandikeswarar.

In koshtam Maha Vinayagar, Dakshinamurthy, Vishnu Subramaniyar, Brahma and Durgai. The temple is constructed like a Shiva temple except for moolavar.

Moolavar is Sri Murugan in a standing posture of about 4 feet high. Dwarapalakas are at the entrance of the sanctum.

Tonsuring place, Pasumadam, Kalyana mandapam, and Mupperum Siddhar temple are at the west side of the temple.

CONTACT DETAILS:

The telephone number is 044 2483 6903

www.vadapalaniandavartemple.tnhrce.in

e-mail  vadapalaniandavartemple@gmail.com

HOW TO REACH :

The temple is very near to the Vadapalani bus stop and the new Metro  Railway station.

Lots of town buses are available from various parts of Chennai city.

LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE:CLICK HERE

 

 Southside 5 tier Rajagopuram 

 West side Rajagopuram 

 Mupperum Siddhar's temple 

 Temple Tank with neerazhi mandapam 

 Temple arch on the south side 

 a Bhairava Siddhar on the south side Temple Street 

SRI VENGEESWARAR TEMPLE, VADAPALANI.

( This part of this was separated and written as a separate post with Architecture, History and Inscriptions, and Legends,  under Gajaprishta vimana temples )

Utilising this opportunity we also had the darshan of Sri Vengeeswarar. When we stayed at Ashok Nagar I visited this temple. At that time it was very small and renovations had not been carried out. 15 years passed. The Kumbhabhishekam was carried out recently and mandala pooja was also concluded. A lot of renovations have been carried out with Rajagopuram and additional sannadhis.

 

 East side 7 tier Rajagopuram 

Moolavar    : Sri Vengeeswarar

Consort      : Sri Santhanayaki

Some of the important features of this temple are.

The temple faces east with a 7-tier Rajagopuram and small gopuram on all the other three sides. Moolavar sanctum is of Gajabirustam type and a little lower than the ground level. The temple was built with sanctum, artha mandapam, and maha mandapam. Dwarapalakas are at the entrance of the sanctum and moolavar is of little big in size. In koshtam, Ganapathy, Dakshinamurthy, Mahavishnu, Brahma, Durgai and Chandikeswarar.

In the outer prakaram sannadhi for Suryan, madapalli, Urchavar kalyana mandapam, Sri Vara siddhi Vinayagar, Sri Valli Devasena Subramaniar, Urchavar mandapam, Bairavar, Navagrahas, Saneeswarar,  Yagasalai.

Ambal is in a separate sannadhi like a temple with reliefs at the entrance.  A stucco image of Ambal on the east side wall of the inner mandapam.

It is believed that the Viyakrapada munivar ( Pulikal – tiger leg - munivar – to climb trees to plug flowers for Shiva ) worshiped lord Shiva of this temple Lord Shiva.  The temple is in Puliyur kottam of Thondai Nadu.  Hence This puliyur may be derived from this temple story.

CONTACT DETAILS:

The telephone number is: 044 2483 8362

HOW TO REACH :

The temple is very near to the Vadapalani bus stop and the new Metro  Railway station.

Lot of town buses are available from various parts of Chennai city.

LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE: CLICK HERE

 North side gopuram 

 Gajabirusta moolavar vimanam

 Temple view from the inner side 

West side Rajagopuram with Sri Valli Devasena Subramaniar Sannadhi 

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