Mundakanni amman temple, Mylapore-Chennai



About the temple

This temple is located in Mylapore (to the north of Kapaleeswara or Kabali temple). Mundakanniamman temple is also a landmark by itself.

Mundakanniamman temple is an ancient temple and very famous in the locales of Chennai. The tamil  month of aadi bears a special significance as in all amman temples.

Amman is seen as Sarawathi ( The goddess of education) and this place is also known to relieve naga dosham of the worshipping devotees.

Specialty of the temple

The theertham given in this temple is known as remedy for chicken pox. The main sannadhi has a tatched roof and Amman is said to be very powerful. The temple also relieves the devotees of naga dosham.

How to reach

Catch up a bus to Mylapore tank or Luz corner locality from any corner of Chennai.. Thirumayilai is the nearest metro station on the Chennai Beach-Velachery route. One more metro station is also coming up nearby. One can easily walk down to the temple either by taking the first left after Saravana Bhavan hotel on North Mada street adjoining the Kapaleeswarar tank. If you get down at Luz corner, go to Kutchery road till you see an arch on the left side that leads to the temple.

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Sannidhis

Mundakanniamman sannidhi ( separate sannidhi for utsavar)
Banyan tree and Nagam
Nardhana Vinayagar, Murugar, Aiyappan, Hanuman, Raamalinga Adigal, Dhakshinamurthy along with Kasi Vishwanathar and Annapoorani have seperate Sanidhis here.


Temples in proximity

Madhava perumal temple, Keseva perumal temple, Sri  Vedanta desika devasthanam, Kabali temple

2 comments:

  1. MundakanniBlessingsOctober 27, 2014 at 10:41 PM

    She is indeed very powerful and blesses us all whole heartedly! Feeling very lucky to have been her child!

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  2. The FlautistJanuary 23, 2016 at 12:37 AM

    Because of my mother's Puja at this temple, I started to play all instruments including flute. Namaskaram. Violin. Veena, clarinet, kanjira, all these I could learn overnight. Later I came to know that she is none other than Goddess Saraswati. In fact, many musicians lived very close to this temple,TK Murthy, mridangam, L Vaidyanathan brothers, AR Rahman when he was a little kid. Even Ilayaraja is a great devotee and he donated large sums.

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