Thiruvalluvar Temple — Attraction in Zone 9 Teynampet

Ayyan Thiruvalluvar Temple is not only His birth place but also His shrine. This is also a Hindu temple in the neighbourhood of Mylapore in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. Believed to have been constructed in the early 16th century, the temple was extensively renovated in the 1970s. Close to the time of Valluvar"s death Elelasingan, a merchant at Mylapore and the disciple of Valluvar expressed his desire to place Valluvar"s body in a Golden Coffin and erect a monumental grave. Politely refusing his request, Valluvar requested him to tie His corpse with cords and leave it among the woods outside the town in order for the wild animals to feed on it. Elelasingan reluctantly obliged to His mentor's wishes and, upon doing so observes that the crows and other animals that fed on His corpse "became beautiful as GOLD." He then built a small temple on the spot where he left Ayyan Valluvar"s corpse and instituted worship, where it remained for centuries. In the 16th century, the present temple was built on the ruins of...

Thiruvalluvar native place was mylapore named Thirumayilai. So there was a house in that area. Moreover, some of the people says it was his temple which turns as temple after his death when his name reached the sky. He given the Tamil book Thirukkural which tells about the human kind and the situation faced in life and how to live. It is common to whole world because it was wrotten without hurting anyone and irrespective of caste, colour, religion, country, region, language, politics etc., But the temple was quite silent many of the local people also didn't know that and also the fact that thiruvalluvar was born in mylapore. It is one of the oldest...

This is a memorial built 400 years earlier in memory of Thiruvalluvar. But people considered Thiruvalluvar as God and performed poojas and changed the memorial in to a temple. Hence, it is called Thiruvalluvar Temple.

Originally Thiruvalluvar was a memorial built in the memory of Thiruvalluvar (Tamil Poet). But people believed him as God and started performing pooja’s and converted the Memorial into a temple. Hence it is known as Thiruvalluvar Temple, located in Thiruvalluvar Koil...