Thursday, 19 April 2018

Kottai veeran Muneeswarar Temple/ கோட்டை வீரன் முனீஸ்வரன் கோயில், Buckingham Street, Karayanchavadi, Poonamallee, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

 … a continuation post to Victory Memorial Blind School  –Exploring Poonamallee - A Heritage Walk 
15th April 2018.
This is one of the Hindu temples visited during our Poonamallee Heritage Walk. It was believed that This temple might be within or a Guarding deity of the Mohammedan Fort built by the Nawab of Carnatic in the 18th century.


The temple faces east with sannidhis for Vinayagar, Shiva Lingam, and the main Sanctum. At the entrance of the main sanctum on the left Bommi Amman and on the right Sri Veerabhadra in a sitting posture with a Mazhu in his right hand  ( as per the details of the sculpture this Veerabhadra may have belonged to the Chozha period, might have been brought from an abandoned Shiva temple).

In the Sanctum, on the left is again a Veerabhadra, sitting in sukhasana with a Mazhu in the left hand, A lady the Kottai Muneeswarar ( Probably a sati stone – could not be identified due to 75% was covered with vasthiram ) at the center and on the right is the Pal Muneeswarar in standing posture. 
   
TEMPLE TIMINGS:
The temple will be kept open between 06.00 hrs to 11.00 hrs and 17.00 hrs to 20.00 hrs on Fridays & Sundays and on the other days temple will be closed an hour earlier.

CONTACT DETAILS:
Poojari L Boopathi may be contacted on his Mobile at +917824025654 and 8610459157 for further details.

HOW TO REACH:
This temple is on the Buckingham Street in Karayanchavadi.
About 500 meters from the Karayanchavadi signal and about 20 meters before St John The Baptist Church.

LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE: CLICK HERE


 Veerabhadra
Bommi Amman
---OM SHIVAYA NAMA---

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