Kumaran Kundram Temple — Attraction in Tamil Nadu

One of those peaceful shrines of lord murugan located on a small but nice rock structure at the heart of the city in between tambaram & chrompet... if you're one of the persons fulfilling the tuesday ritual of worshipping murugan or has some prayer ritual to complete, this place is not too much crowded even on tuesdays... very well n cleanly maintained by the temple devasthanam (never I'll mention aranilayathurai). Has almost close to 100 steps to climb, has a good view of the city. Accessible place from tambaram or chrompet, added perk is that it has the hasthinapuram bus depot less than a km from the shrine which operates regular buses to prime parts of the city or you can board 52h from chrompet which is available all day... car parking is not available you've to park on nearby streets... you've a lot of vegetarian restaurants and orthodox coffee shops in & around the area.... overall it's a calm n peaceful place to visit n get dharshan of lord murugan.... as an alternate to vadapalani n siruvaapuri try this less known murugan shrine one time.......

Calm and powerful place.. overwhelming grace..nice place for meditation. Lord Muruga will be cute and majestic at the same time. Well maintained temple, neat and clean. 5 stars for Temple

About the Beggar Priest:

The one doing pooja will irritate with his mannerism and talk. Behaving like we went inside his home sitting and talking in phone when many waiting for Archanai. One lady brought lemon without knowledge..he was yelling like anything..he is not suitable at this great place. He begs with pride, Kanikka Kanikka podu, if you place coins instead of notes he will call us Beggar although he is the real one.

I have never seen such a physcho in a temple. One kid he was singing song from Thirupugazh praising Lord murugan standing in the entrance not disturbing anyone. This physcho suddenly increased the volume of the temple speaker so he has to stop and after he left he made it low. In a place like temple can u believe such sadist exists?????? One thing is he is doing everything before the almightys eye..He will pay for...

Beautiful temple in the hill

The presiding deity in Kumaran Kundram is believed to be equivalent to the one in Swamimalai and stands atop the hillock facing north. It can be reached by a flight of about 80 steps.

Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati Swamigal, a saint, and seer of the Kanchi Mutt, had visited Chrompet in 1956 and observing the hillock, he proposed that a temple be built for Murugan. The people built the temple for Siddhi Vinayagar that year. Nearly twenty years later, when the people were clearing the hillside for making a path, they came across a Vel (spear), the primary weapon of Murugan. The discovery propelled the people to hasten the building of the temple. The people performed the consecration of the Sri Swaminathaswamy temple in 1979. Gradually, more shrines were added.

Here, the deity of Shiva (Sundareswarar) appears under the Ghajabrushta Vimaanam in the north-facing sanctum. Goddess Meenakshi has a sanctum facing east side.

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