Sri Parinthurai Eswarar Temple, Thathaimanji, Sri Tripura Sundari Sametha Sri Thiruvaleeswarar, Pulicat / Pazhaverkadu, Thiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu.

 16^th March, 2016.

After our darshan of Sri Paleeswarar, we decided to return back to Chennai.   Instead of continuing further we return back for about 3 KM and taken the route to Minjur through Kattur.  While crossing the place called Thathaimanji my friend stopped near a Shiva temple found to be recently constructed. But when we went inside the temple and found that temple was very old, maybe 300 to 400 years old, and reconstructed later keeping the mandapam old pillars.

SRI PARINTHURAI ESWARAR – THATHAIMANJI

Moolavar    : Sri Parinthurai Eswarar

Consort      : Sri Thiripura Sundarai

Some of the important details of this temple are……

The temple faces east with an entrance arch on the south side. Balipeedam and Rishabam are in the outer prakaram. Moolavar is small and looks beautiful.

Vinayagar, Sri Valli Devasena Subramaniar, Navagrahas and Chandikeswarar sannadhis are also in the outer prakaram.

TEMPLE TIMINGS :

Since one kala pooja is conducted the timings are not predictable.

HOW TO REACH :

The place Thathaimanji is on the way to Kattur, Minjur.

LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE: CLICK HERE

The Gurukkal told us there was also an old temple at  Kattur on our way back home. On the way to Shiva temple, we had the darshan of Sri Vainkuntavasa Perumal.

SRI VAIKUNDAVASA PERUMAL TEMPLE - KATTUR

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Vaikundavasa Perumal temple faces west with a Rajagopuram on the south side. Thayar Vaikundavalli is not in a separate sannadhi but in the mandapam of the main sanctum. Garudalwar is in front of moolavar. There are separate sannadhi for Ramar and Chakkarathalwar.

The Shiva temple temple is at the end of the street and it welcomed us with the Sharp Rajagopuram on the east side. We could not obtain more information about the temple and the sanctum was closed, keeping the Rajagopuram main gate open.

Chakkarathalwar sannadhi 

TIRUVALEESWARAR TEMPLE KATTUR

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Moolavar    : Sri Valeeswarar

Consort      : Sri Thiripura Sundarai

Some of the important details are ….

In the outer prakaram sannadhi for Navagrahas, Suryan, Hanuman or Vaali, Kalabhairava, balipeedam and Rishabam. In koshtam Vinayagar, Dakshinamurthy, Lingothbavar, Brahma and Durgai.

Ambal is facing south. We could not judge the antiquity of the temple since the temple was completely reconstructed and tiles were paved on the praharam floors.

TEMPLE TIMINGS :

Since one kala pooja is conducted the timings are not predictable.

HOW TO REACH :

The place Kattur is on the way to Minjur to Pazhaverkadu.

LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE: CLICK HERE

Pulikuthi bas-relief

With this Kattur Shiva temple visit, we closed our temple darshan travel and returned back home. My friend Mr. Boominathan dropped me off at Kathivakkam railway station and returned back home via Central Park and Guindy. At Central Station (After the new painting) took some photos and they were posted on my Facebook

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