Last
Thursday my father suddenly decided to visit the Thiruporur Murugan temple and
by afternoon, along with my uncle’s family we head to the temple. And btw my
uncle suggested checking the Anjaneyar temple on top of a small hill near
Kelambakkam – about 35 km south of Chennai, which my parents and others wanted
to do for a long time.
Sri
Veera Anjaneyar Temple in the village of Puthuppakkam is 5 km from Kelambakkam,
on the road towards Vandaloor, is the beautiful small temple situated atop a
hill called Gajagiri hills. We know this temple from a very long time and those
days it can be reached only by steps, that too in pathetic condition, never
gave us a thought to try although we have passed this hillock many
times.
My
cousin who visited this temple few years back comes to discover a road has been
built up to the hill top. And from that time onwards, I wanted to go to this
temple to get some views around the area from the hill top, with SIPCOT IT Park
as its backyard. So taking this as a wonderful opportunity, I also find it little
exciting take the small road up the hill with couple of hairpin bends! It was
cool and breezy, and awesome with views once atop.
The
temple is told to have a strong connection with the Nithiyakalyana Perumal
Temple in Thiruvadanthai, next to Kovalam in ECR. It seems, every year they
set/said to follow a custom of carrying certain things as procession from the
Anjaneyar Temple to Nithiyakalyana Perumal Temple in times of festival. Thiruvadanthai being my grandmother’s native
village, my mom used to indicate it always when coming across the temple.
As soon
we reached the foothill, I was amazed, not just looking at the two big
colorful statues of Hanuman and Karudazvar that stands upright on the either
sides of the footsteps leading to the top. It was the place only recently I saw in a Tamil
movie, where an action scene took place. There are 108 steps to reach the
temple if one decides to take by foot, while enjoying the nature.
The
temple believed to be 500-1000 years old, is also said to be that while
carrying the Sanjeevi Hill to save Sri Lakshmana, Sri Anjaneyar stopped here
for a while to perform Surya Namaskar. So he become so powerful at this place
to named Veera Anjaneyar. The temple was quite calm and clean when we visited,
but I couldn’t take more photos as I left my camera at home. Here are photos
shot from my sister’s mobile.
15 comments:
so glad they put in a road to make it more accessible to you!
Great images of temple and surrounding areas. Glad that finally, you've settled down at the new place. Beat wishes!
Hi Jeevan,
Glad you got to visit such an old temple! Such temples are minimally of huge historical value, and for some religious and spiritual value.
The statues are beautiful and your sister has done a good job of photographing them.
Have a Beautiful Day!
Peace :)
temple is beautiful, looks so calm and peaceful
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What a nice view from the hill top. I always enjoyed visiting temples in China which were on top high mountains too.
The Anjenayar statue is sporting a bold green color :) Will try to visit it sometime...
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What a beautiful temple. Looks like an amazing place to visit, Jeevan!!
What a huge temple torch! And nice shots.
Thanks a lot for sharing the b'ful pics! I love South Indian styled temples :D
I have heard of this temple but never knew the details. I have to visit this soon. Thank you, Jeevan!
Pictures are beautiful!
Great coverage of the temple.
There is a lot of color to see.
Very good temple. Thanks for the information.
We went up the hill by walk. Steps are not steep. We have landing space at every 4 or 5 steps. The temple is open from 7.30 am to 11.30am and 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm (as per the temple board). Safe side you can go at 8.00am or at 4.00 pm. We can also go by car as the road is broad enough. At the top it is calm and peaceful and view is excellent.
Thulasi malai and flowers are available at the base.
Venkatraman. N.S
Does anyone know/ have the contact number of Veera Anjaneyar temple at pudhupakkam. If anyone have please share it.
Its Ariel doom. Belongs to India. Army. Opp to hill small Indian army signals post is there.
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