Sri Aadhipureeswarar Temple / Adhipureeswarar Temple, on the banks of river Cooum, Chintadripet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,

09^th July 2017.

This 18^th century shiva temple is adjacent to the Sri Adhikesava Perumal Temple, off Arunachalam Road, on Nainiappan Street, at Chintadripet, on the banks of river Koovam. Chinna - thari - Pettai ( ie the hand operated weaving machine in Tamil is called as Thari  and Chinna means small ) was changed to Chintadripet.

Moolavar    : Sri Adhipureeswarar

Consort      : Sri Tripura Sundari.

Some of the important features of this temple are...

The temple is facing east with and entrance arch. A 4 pillar mandapam is before the entrance arch. Deepa sthambam, Palipedam, Dwajasthambam and nadhi  are in front of sanctorum.

In the outer prakaram Sannadhi for Poorna, Pushkala Dharma Sastha, Guru Dakshinamurthy Sannadhi, Mummalpedu Rathinasamy Chettiar Mandapam and Nagars and Shiva Lingas under Bodhi / peepal tree.

In koshtam Dakshinamurthy, Mahavishnu, Brahma and Durgai. Moolavar looks cute with alangaram.

ARCHITECTURE

The Temple was constructed with sanctum sanctorum, Artha mandapam and Maha mandapam which forms the inner prakaram. 

HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS

The temple, along with the adjacent AadhiKesava Perumal temple was built by Audiyappa Narayana, a dubash to the British as per the instruction of British’s Govt. This is to motivate weavers to take residence around these two temples. These temples were built at a cost of 18000 pagodas  during 1730s.

( Some of the details Ref: The book on 'The Gods of Holy River Cooum' by Priya Baskaran ). The inscriptions recorded in Chennai Managara kalvettukal, published by Tamil Nadu Archaeological department is given below. 

The 1874 CE inscription records that Bhagirathi's grand daughter and Kamalammal's daughter Kokilambal constructed the Kodiyetru mandapam.

The 1782 CE inscription records that Kandivakku Venkataswamy Naicker's son K Parthasarathy constructed the Theerthavari mandapam.  

TEMPLE TIMINGS:

The temple will be kept opened between 06.30 hrs to 11.30 hrs and 17.00 hrs to 20.30 Hrs.

CONTACT DETAILS:

Mr Saravana Gurukkal may be contacted for further details on his mobile 9840337834.

HOW TO REACH:

The temple is about a KM from Chintadripet suburban railway station

Right side on Arunachala Street.

LOCATION:CLICK HERE

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