The
Visit to this Sri Amirthagadeswarar Temple was a part of the Shiva and Vishnu
Temples Visit in Selaiyur, a part of Chennai City, on 17th March
2024. This Shiva Temple and Sri Adikesava Perumal Temple are on both ends
of the same street
Moolavar : Sri Amithakadeswarar
Consort : Sri Abhirami
Some
of the salient features of this temple are….
The
temple faces east with a 3 tier Rajagopuram on the west side. Balipeedam, Dwajasthambam, and Rishabam are in front of the sanctum sanctorum. Moolavar in
the sanctum is on a square avudayar. In koshtam Vinayagar, Dakshinamurthy, Maha
Vishnu, Brahma and Durgai.
Ambal
is in a separate sannidhi facing south. Ambal is in standing posture with
abhaya varada hastam.
In
praharam Vinayagar, Sri Valli Devasena Subramaniar, Srinivasa Perumal with
Padmavathy, Garudan, Natarajar, Navagrahas, Kala Bairavar, Anugraha Anjaneyar,
Nagars, Adi Parasakthi, an old Rishabam, Chandran and Suriyan.
The
temple tank is in front of the temple. Almost all of India’s river Goddesses'
images are on the bund walls of the tank.
After Moolavar, this Rishabam seems to be an old one.
ARCHITECTURE
The
complete temple was constructed with sanctum sanctorum and ardha mandapam. An
Ekatala vesara Vimanam is on the top of the sanctum sanctorum.
Stucco
images of Shiva with Parvati’s marriage are on the right side mandapam and on
the top of the sanctum sanctorum.
HISTORY
AND INSCRIPTIONS
It was
said that the original temple is more than 500 years old and
reconstructed in recent years. To prove the claim there is no evidence
found in the temple, except a rishabam.
Outer
wall construction was started on 02nd December 1975.
Maha
Kumbhabhishekam was conducted on 19th January 1975, and 19th
June 1994, Jeernodharana maha Kumbhabhishekam for Murugan, Perumal &
Thayar, Navagrahas, Hanuman, Kala Bairavar, Suriyan and Chandran, was conducted
on 1998.
LEGENDS
This
temple is considered equivalent to Thirukadaiyur Amirthakadeswarar temple.
Hence the Devotees celebrate their Sashtiyapthapoorthi and Sathabhishekam,
Shanthi, etc in this temple.
POOJAS
AND CELEBRATIONS
Apart
from regular poojas, special poojas are conducted on pradosam, Maha Shivaratri,
Panguni Uthiram with Thirukalyanam, Vinayagar Chaturthi, Fridays, Adi Fridays, etc.
TEMPLE
TIMINGS
The
temple will be kept open between 07.00 hrs. to 10.30 ( Fridays it will be
open up to 11.00 hrs. ) hrs. and 17.00 hrs. to 20.30 hrs.
CONTACT
DETAILS
Narayan,
Thalaivar +918056210745 and Sundaramoorthy, Cashier +919789071831 may be
contacted for further details.
K.S.
Samba Moorthi Gurukkal, +91 9498078165 (WhatsApp only), +91 8754377316, +91
9444751833, +91 9176689301, Pls. contact after 9 PM only
HOW TO
REACH
This
Shiva Temple is about 500 meters from Selaiyur Perumal Kovil Kulam, about 300
meters off from Velachery to Tambaram Road and turn left on Sivan Koil
Street. The temple is 3 Km from Tambaram
and 28 KM from Chennai Central.
Nearest
Railway station is Tambaram.
LOCATION
OF THE TEMPLE: CLICK HERE
River Goddesses' images are on the bund walls of the tank.
--- OM
SHIVAYA NAMA ---
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