Sri Kasi Viswanathar And Sri Venugopala Swamy Temples, Pappanchatiram

Address

Sri Kasi Viswanathar And Sri Venugopala Swamy Temples 4/59,Main Road, Pappanchatiram., Madras Bombay Trunk Rd, Pappanchattram, Chembarambakkam, Tamil Nadu 602103

Diety

Kasi Vishvanatheeswara, Venugopala swamy

Introduction

Just off the Bengaluru-Chennai National Highway between Poonamallee and Kanchipuram is Pappanchatram, where Kasi Viswanathar and Sri Venugopala Swamy Temples present a pathetic sight. Both temples are in one complex that doesn’t even have a compound wall. Cattle – cows, calves, and goats – enter the temple freely, and the locals even use the complex to keep their cattle on a leash. The temple is in a shambles with structures disintegrating. It would be hard to believe that the temple owns 177.7 acres, including the land on which the Queensland Amusement Park and St John’s International Residential School are operating. Doraiswamy Gurukkal, who has been the priest for the Kasi Viswanathar Temple since 1974, says the temple had two halls (mandapams) for marriages and events. Both have been damaged, and today, there are no signs of them being the big halls that they were at one time. The origin of the temple dates back to the 1800s He then built the Shiva temple there along with one for Vishnu. In addition to the temple, a quarters was constructed for temple priests to live, while the two big halls also came up. while the temple, situated in the area, exists in a dilapidated condition. Local priests hope that the land gets restored soon and they get the opportunity to take the temple and its surroundings back to its glory days.