Sri Muthukumaraswamy Devasthanam popularly known as Kandaswamy temple or KandaKottam is one of the famous temple in Chennai City. It is near Madras Central Railway Station. The area covered by the temple is about eight acres. As per the history of the temple, two ardent devotees of Lord Muruga Thiru Mari Chetty and Thiru Kandapandaram, when they visited Tirupporur Murugan temple, tired & slumbering, they had a divine dream in which Lord Muruga appeared and informed them that they would find an idol of Himself in an ant-hill on the tank bund, Accordingly the two devotees discovered the idol and brought it to Madras .The idol is two feat high and Sri Valli and Sri Deivayanai are on either side ago this presiding deity. The temple has Sri Kulakkarai Vinayagar with Siddhi and Buddhi as his consort’s shrine, Near this Vinayagar shrine there is also a separate shrine for Sri Kasi Viswanathar and Goddess Visalakshi.THis temple is one of the 1000 Murugan / Subhramanya temples in India. Must have darshan.

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A very old temple dedicated to Lord Muruga also called Kandha Kottam and is located in Parrys, Chennai. Its an old temple and has sannidhis for Lord Ganesha, Shiva and navagrahas. There is a pond inside the temple which is called Saravana Poigai. The six day Skanda Shasti festival is one of the most important festival here with devotees from all places thronging to take part in the laksharchanai.

An age old temple visited by great saints. A must see place in Chennai. Very powerful GOD..

Very nice TempleOpen till 1230 pmEvening 830pmFriday Tuesday full open not closed in the afternoon

Hindus must visit

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