Bairagi Mutt Temple Tank (Waterbodies of Chennai - 13)

Not many of you from Chennai city might even imagine that such small lanes of the congested Sowcarpet area would have so many massive temples as well as big tanks within the temple premises. Unfortunately, many of them are neglected and not maintained properly. The temple tank of Bairagi Mutt Temple is one such waterbody of this locality that needs to be given high focus.

The tank occupies an area of about 0.2 acres. The tank is very deep. There are more than 30 steps to reach down to water level. With the beautiful steps on all four sides, it would have been a spectacular sight to have this tank full of water. Unfortunately, no one remembers when the tank had water in the past.

To learn about the Bairagi Temple, visit this page.

Happy travelling.

Note: As per a report, there were about 650+ waterbodies in the Chennai region till the 1980s. Today, only a fraction of them exist. And most of those surviving waterbodies hardly have water, and even some of them that have water have been poorly shrunk. In Chennai, there are tank roads without tanks nearby and lake-view roads without lakes. There is a high possibility that even the few waterbodies we have today might vanish soon. I decided to visit the currently surviving waterbodies of Chennai and its suburbs and write about them in my blog as a series.

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