Venugopalaswamy Temple, Mugaiyur, Kanchipuram
Venugopalaswamy
Temple is dedicated to Hindu God Vishnu located at Mugaiyur Village near
Kalpakkam in Kanchipuram District of Tamilnadu. Presiding Deity is called as Venugopalaswamy
and Mother is known as Suntharavadivu. Mugaiyur has 10 temples on the whole.
Until 1985, fishermen here mistook the stone idol of the Lord as ordinary stone
and started fishing from here. Also workers here blew the coconut husks for
making threads on the back of the Lord, thinking that it was a stone.
The Lord
was in an inverted position and the folk had no idea that it was the Lord. One
gifted personality, on suspicion moved the stone idol upwards. Only then it was
realised that it is Venugopalaswamy alias Kallazhagar. Like in Madurai, here
Kallazhagar is sitting on the back of a horse. The other temples in this small
town are Vishnu Durgai, Vanchiamman, Muthumariamman, Muthalamman, Baraniamman,
and Gangaiamman.
Jalakandeswarar
temple is situated in a grave. Mugaiyur is situated in ECR road, 15 KM from
Kalpakkam towards Pondicherry. Koovathur, a small town on ECR road is just 5 KM
from Mugaiyur, from where share autos are available.
Contact: +91 – 9940253944 / 9894109986