This visit to this Sri Koteeswarar Temple was a part of the 572nd week, abhishekam organised by the Ancient Shiva Temples & Shivamayam Team, on 19th October 2025. Thanks to the Shivamayam Team. This Sri Koteeswarar Temple is on the banks of the Adyar River and the Buckingham Canal at Kottur / Kotturpuram, a part of Chennai.
Moolavar : Sri Koteeswarar
Consort : Sri Koteeswari
Some of the salient features of this temple are….
The temple faces east with a Rishabam in the mukha mandapam. Moolavar Shiva Lingam is in the sanctum sanctorum under a rudraksha pandal. Ambal Sri Koteeswari is also near the Shiva Lingam, facing south. Metal icons of Natarajar with Sivakami are also in the sanctum sanctorum. A Rishabam is also in front of the Shiva Lingam.
The temple doesn’t have koshta and parivara sannidhis.
ARCHITECTURE
The Shiva Lingam and Ambal are installed in a metacolour sheet shed. The front side is extended as a mukha mandapam.
HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS
This place, Kottur, has a long history since the Pallava and Chola eras. During the Chozha period, Kottur was the capital of “Kottur Nadu”, under Puliyur Kottam (the present Kodambakkam area), in Jayangonda Chola Mandalam of Thondai Mandalam. During the British period, this place belonged to Arcot Nawas and was called the Nawab Garden. Later, the property was bought by Annamalai Chettiar and the Murugappa Chettiar Group. After the introduction of the Land Ceiling Act, a small portion was retained by them.
The Chozha period inscription at Sri Thandeeswarar Temple, Velachery, records this place Kottur as Kottur Nadu. தமிழ் நாட்டுக்கல்வெட்டுகள் தொகுதி - IX - காஞ்சிபுரம் மாவட்டக் கல்வெட்டுகள் தொகுதி-5, ன்படி..
மதுரை கொண்ட கோவிராஜகேசரியின் (சுந்தரசோழன்), 5 ஆம் ஆட்சியாண்டு, தண்டீஸ்வரர் கோயில் உண்ணாழிகைத் தெற்குச் சுவரில் உள்ள கல்வெட்டு (769 / 2017), புலியூர்க் கோட்டத்துக் கோட்டூர் நாட்டு வெளிச்சேரி ஊர் நிர்வாகச் சபையான ஆளுங்கணத்து உறுப்பினர் தென்னூர் தேவகுமார கிரமவித்தன் என்பவன் இவ்வூர் தண்டீஸ்வரர் கோயிலில் ஒரு நுந்தா விளக்கெரிக்க 90 சாவாமூவா பேராடுகள் தானமளித்துள்ள செய்தியை பதிவு செய்கின்றது.
The Chozha King Madurai Konda Kõviräjakēsari’s (Parāntaka-II: Sundara Chōla) 5th reign year (962 CE), inscription on the south wall of the central shrine in the Dandisvara temple, records that one Devakumāra Kramavittan of Tennur, one of the members of the administrative assembly (alunganam) of Velichchēri, donated 90 Saavaa moovaa sheep for a perpetual lamp to the temple of Dandīśvara at Velichchëri in Köttür nādu, a sub-division of Puliyür-köttam.
During 1971-72, Archaeological Department personnel inspected the Prasanna Venkatesa Perumal Temple and estimated the age of the temple might be 970 Years, based on the 12th to 13th century incomplete fragment inscription found on the mandapam wall. But some of the experts, based on the mandapa pillars, believe that the Prasanna Venkatesa Perumal temple may belong to the 16th to 17th century Vijayanagara Nayaka period.
The Shiva Lingam and Rishabam were unearthed in the same place during the 20th century. Based on the Perumal Temple and Thandeeswarar temple inscriptions, the experts believe that an 11th to 12th century Chozha period Shiva temple might have existed in the same place.
Due to various reasons, the old temple was not reconstructed, like the Vishnu Temple and the Shiva Lingam with Rishabam are installed in a metacolour sheet shed.
LEGENDS
POOJAS AND CELEBRATIONS
Apart from regular poojas, special poojas are conducted on Pradosham, Maha Shivaratri, Amavasya, Pornami, Chaturthi, etc.
TEMPLE TIMINGS
Since oru kala pooja is conducted, the opening and closing times are unpredictable.
CONTACT DETAILS
The Gurukkal Prasanna +919003019595 and his father Venkatesh +919840739797 may be contacted for poojas and abhishekam.
HOW TO REACH
This Shiva temple is just in front of Sri Prasnna Venkatesa Perumal Temple.
The temple is 450 meters from Kotturpuram MRTS Railway Station, 9.1 km, and 11 km from Chennai Central.
The nearest Railway Station is Kotturpuram MRTS Station.
LOCATION OF THE TEMPLE: CLICK HERE
PC- Mr. B Karthikeyan
Sivamayam team--- OM SHIVAYA NAMA ---
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