Sri Vaitheeswarar Temple, Madayampakkam

Address

Sri Vaitheeswarar Temple, Madayampakkam village, Kanchipuram district, Tamilnadu

Diety

Vaitheeswarar

Introduction

Vaitheeswarar Temple is dedicated to Hindu God Shiva located at Madayampakkam Village in Kanchipuram District. The Temple was built by Pallava Kings. The Pallava kings, who were ardent devotees of Lord Siva have built many large temples, some of them cave temples. But because of flow of time and negligence many of them are now ruined and dilapidated. One such temple is at Madayampakkam village. The small village is situated about 30 Kms from Mathuranthagam. The ruin is not only showing in the temple but the Lord of the shrine, Sri Vaitheeswarar himself is in a pitiable state. The siva linga is in pieces. Some good hearted people have taken efforts and taken the Siva Linga to a separate Mandapam. Pallava kings have built 108 siva temples in the region. This is one of them. Dakshinamurthy, Suriya, Ganapathy, Murugan, Bhairavar and Nandhi are some of the idols that remain intact still. The temple has a sacred pond.