Thiruchendur Murugan Temple – Subsidiary Temples
The subsidiary temples attached to the Thiruchendur
administration are nineteen. Most of them are minor shrines spread over the
town and the suburbs to a distance of four miles. Two of them are in the
Puttantaruvai village. A full list is given below. They are mostly under the
management of pujaris, though nominally under the Devasthanam administration.
Most conspicuous of them all is the town Siva temple of Sri
Sivakolundeeswarar and Sri Anandavalli Amman. The outer measurements are 356
feet long and 168 feet broad. Situated in the heart of then town, its
dimensions are large, its inner precincts majestic and the approaches leading
to it covered by two large mandapas. The columns of sculptured yalis and
conventional types are of exquisite workmanship.
The exterior mantapa contains many shops, and is cut
from the main entrance to the temple by an intervening road. This temple, which
might have been re-built in the days of the Nayaks in the 17th century to such
enormous proportions, ought to have seen better days, and latterly eclipsed by
the growing importance and popularity attached to the seashore temple of Sri Subrahmaniyam.
·
Sri
Venkatesa Perumal within the prakara
of the temple
·
Sri
Valli Amman cave temple on the sea border
·
Sri
Tundu-Kai Vinayakar Temple
·
Sri Swarna Vanam Sastha
Kovil
· Sri Sivakolundiswarar and Anandavalli Amman Kovil alias Mela Koyil
or Town Siva Temple
·
Sri Amirtaguna Vinayagar temple
·
Sri Ananta Sastha Koyil
·
Sri Allkonda Vinayagar temple
·
Sri Arasalwar Vinayagar temple
·
Sri Muttaramman temple
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Sri Sabhapati Vināyagar temple
·
Sri Maragatha Valli Amman
temple
·
Sri Veluganta Amman temple
·
Sri Uchima Kali Amman temple
·
Sri Thalai-untri Sasthan
Koyil
·
Sri Kundru Mel Iyen
Sasthan Koyil
·
Sri Chokkar temple
· Sri Pirappudai Sasthan
Koyil and Saravana Vinayagar temple in Inam Thirupani
Puttantaruvai village in Thiruchendur taluk; and
·
Sri Bala Vinayagar temple