Vijayanagara era Shri Prasanna Chennakesava Swamy Temple — Attraction in Andhra Pradesh

I have travelled to Ongole with my friend to explore Bhairav Kona. We took Hotel near Ongole railway station and then visited Bhairav Kona on first day visit and returned to Hotel. During chit chat with Hotel team came to know that this Chenna Kesava temple is located near to the hotel and which is very famous temple of Ongole. Then next day morning we went there and had Chenna Kesava Swamy Darshan in the morning. We are so blessed that we got Swamy Darshan very surprisingly.

This temple is located very near to Ongole Railway Station. Hardly 10 min travel distance and the Location called as Kesava swami Peta. The main deity of this temple is Chenna Kesava Perumal who is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu.

History of the temple: During the end of 16th Century, Rama Bhadhra Raju and Raghupathy Raju, who were ruling the Vijayanagara Kingdom constructed this temple. These kings were ardent devotees of Lord Vishnu and hence they installed an idol of the lord in their fort itself and named lord as Chenna Kesava Swamy. They use to perform regular poojas and rituals to the lord. Most of the villagers do take the darshan of the lord from outside the fort during the ceremonies and festival celebrations. Due to huge crowd there were security issues during festivals. then keeping this in mind king called Asthana pundit Vangala Seetharam Avadhani and consulted to get the solution. After the discussion of the King with the Pandit's have had come to a conclusion to build the temple on the hill of Ongole and the today's temple was built in present place in the year 1712 for common people worship.

The temple premises with a neat circular courtyard houses the small other temples of Sri Bhaktanjaneya, Sri Venkatesa, Sri Rama Vasundhara and Sri Satyanarayana Swamy.

Special pujas and abhishekas are performed during Karthika and Dhanur Masa duration.

Temple Timings: Morning 06:00 to 12:00 Evening...

One of the most Ancient temple present in the Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh. During the end of the 16th century, Rama Bhadhra Raju and Raghupathy Raju, the feudatory kings for Vijayanagara Kingdom were ruling from Ongole. These Kings were ardent devotees of Lord Venkateshwara. Hence they installed an idol of the lord in their fort itself and named the lord as Chennakesava Swamy. They also performed regular poojas and rituals to the lord.

Huge number of villagers assembles at the Chennakesava swamy temple to witness the rituals, ceremonies conducted by the Kings. Since it is a small shrine, most of the villagers do take the dharshan of the lord from outside the fort during the ceremonies or the festival celebrations.

Since they have enmity with the Kings of Venkatagiri, it becomes troublesome for the Army Minister Raghunayaka in providing required security around the fort, due to the huge crowd assemble there during...

Ragupathi raju and Raghava raju of vijayanagar dynasty local kings of Ongole built this temple . Nice and very peaceful temple and this is very very oldest temple .It really a hindu mythological temple . This temple had a long history to built in the hill which are chennakesava swampy temple and lord shiva venkateshvara swampy temple .means lord shiva and lord vishnu temple are located side by side , its very peacefull in this temple and it is so high more than 100feet temple located in ongole . These temples are so famous in ongole and on festivals occasions classical dance performance are done in temple and it is mythological temple very peaceful place for an early morning or in the evening visit . very beautiful temple visit the temple again and again marvellous architecture found in...