Temple Pond of Narayanapuram (Waterbodies of Chennai - 45)

This unknown temple pond in Naryanapuram is afraid. What would happen to this tiny pond when the gigantic lake of Narayanapuram could lose one-third of its area? Who would bother about this? Hardly anyone knows about its existence. It might be an easy target for encroachment. 

This pond belongs to a small Samayapuram Mari Amman temple located on the other side of the road.

In those days, people always formed a waterbody along with the temple. This is a small temple, but its pond is bigger than the temple. It occupies an area of around 1.7 acres. Who knows? Originally, it would have been much more extensive.

Let the owner of this pond, Mari Amman, protect this pond forever.

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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