Tiruvur Temple Tank (Waterbodies of Chennai - 37)

Around 40 km from Chennai, in a lesser-known village called Tiruvur, there is a Chola-era temple for Lord Shiva. Shiva is named Shringandeeswarar here, as it is believed that the sage Rishya Shringa worshiped him. The temple has a big tank that covers an area of around 1.25 acres. Not more than 30% of the tank has water. The maintenance is the issue. I could see some encroachments too.


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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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