Now that I have gotten a little more comfortable with the driving, I am slowly easing into making weekend trips near Bangalore. Having read about the Chikka Tirupathi  temple in a blog and having gone across a couple of times in bike rides, I thought it is a convenient place to take the family as [...]

 

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Sri Venkateswara Temple in Oldbury, a suburb of Birmingham is  probably the largest of South Indian style temples in U.K.  After numerous recommendations and enquiries (have you visited, why not kind) from friends, we had been planning to go to Birmingham Temple for almost 2 years but only just got the opportunity towards last Christmas [...]

Thiruvannamalai, a town of about 1.5 lakh people and a district head quarters is one of the numerous temple towns in Tamilnadu. Even in this state filled with many such places, Thiruvannamalai stands out. The gigantic Arunachaleshwara temple complex set against the backdrop of the majestic Arunachala (red mountain) hill attracts devotees and tourists in thousands.  The whitewashed Raja gopuram at 218 feet is [...]

This weekend we travel to one of the most famous temples of Tamilnadu, the Brihadeeshwara Temple in Thanjavur. Popularly called The Big Temple, it is considered to be the height of not just Chola but Dravidian temple architecture.

The big temple lives upto its name. The tallest gopuram of its time (now third), second largest Nandi [...]

Singaperumal Koil is a Divyadesam very near Chennai on the way to Chengalpattu. Although I have gone numerous time past this place, this was my first visit, which came to happen after two cancellations.
The temple here is Padaladri (ugra) Narasimhar temple, a quiet and peaceful temple. Built on the base of a small hillock, the [...]

Although overshadowed by numerous other temple towns in Tamilnadu, there is no dearth of temples in the capital Chennai. Mylapore and Triplicane (Thiruvallikeni) pre-date the city itself as historic temples towns. Apart from these two well known ones, there are many other old temples strewn all around the city and suburbs (a topic for future posts).Â
To celebrate [...]