Sri Samayeeswarar Temple, Pulicat / Pazhaverkadu, Thiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu.

 16^th March, 2016

After the Light house visit  reached this Shiva temple. It was told that the temple was built during Chozha Period. The renovation is in progress. It was happy to see that materials like lime, etc are used for renovation.

SRI SAMAYEESWARAR TEMPLE – PAZHAVERKADU.

Moolavar    : Sri Samayeeswarar

Consort      : Sri Anandavalli

Some of the important details are as follows….

The temple is facing east with Rishabam and balipeedam  are at outside the sanctum sanctorum. 

Ambal is in a separate temple facing east with two sannadhis on the back side on the left side of the man sanctum sanctorum.

ARCHITECTURE

The temple was built with sanctum, artha mandapam and maha mandapam. There is a mandapam adjacent to Ambal sannidhi may be used for urchavams and celebration of festivals.

The front entrance   to the temple  is dilapidated condition with trees grown on it. The roots came up to ground  and formed like another pillars. The roof  is supported by wooden pillars and  the terrace is of madras type terrace. The sub sannidhis are with out idols may be kept inside and during our visit, we could not see them.

It is worth look at the reliefs chiseled on the pillars. In the front mandapam  on the ceiling in addition to the regular symbolic representation of reliefs of Solar and lunar eclipse. There are bas-reliefs of lizards and fish with wings. The mandapam beams also has the reliefs of Shiva and  munivars.

THE TEMPLE TIMINGS :

Since one kala pooja is conducted  the time of opening is unpredictable.

CONTACT DETAILS :

Sivachariyar Ganesha Gurukkal may be contacted for further details and his mobile number is 8682821200

HOW TO REACH :

Town buses are available from Ponneri, Red hills to Pazhaverkadu and the temple is about a KM from the Pazhaverkadu bus stop.

LOCATION :CLICK HERE

 Back side of Ambal temple

 Front side of Ambal temple

 Mandapam may be used for functions 

 Vahana mandapam

Pothiyal and beam reliefs 

 Pothiyal and beam reliefs 

 Ceiling reliefs – Solar and Lunar eclipse with Lizard reliefs 

Beam reliefs 

 Beam reliefs 

 Pothiyal and beam reliefs 

 Pothiyal Monkey relief – a rare sculpture 

Pothiyal Monkey relief – a rare sculpture 

 Pothiyal Monkey relief – a rare sculpture 

 The king or the donor who helped to construct the mandapam 

Beam reliefs 

 Kannappar story 

 Sankarar  

 Many places this relief is found – Monkey eating a jack fruit. 

Entrance arch with Madras terrace type roof – the vegetation will crumble the structure soon

The person who takes care of the Dutch Cemetery  told us there is a Adhi Narayan Temple near the big mosque and also it is too old. We tried our best to reach the temple but could not do so due to the thorny  bush and  high vegetation grown  along the path. Only the Anjaneyar sannadhi is on the road side. The main renovated and abandoned   due to High court order vimanam can be seen from a long distance.  We tried to see from the back side but could not see due high growth of vegetation.

We do not know  for whom Adhi narayanan is waiting for ?.

 --- OM SHIVAYA NAMAHA:---

........... To be continued with Dutch Cemetery