Vayalathur - Uthramerur - Daily Pooja scheme

This Temple for  Lord Mahalingaswamy is on the banks of river Cheyyar and is a stone structure in a damaged state as can be seen from the picture below:

Palani Siva and Senthil outside damaged Vayalathur temple

 This temple was lying closed for a long time and thanks to the effort of a few students , the temple was re-opened and  regular pooja started.

Sudhakar before Nandi and front view of the temple

Ardhanareeswarar alangaram to Lord Mahalingaswamy 

Nandi Alangaram on Pradosham day

 Mr. Magesh along with Mr Sudhakar do the regular pooja and out of their own  passion celebrate every  Pradosham in a grand manner out of resources raised by them locally and the picture above is a testimony to their creativity, passion and love for the Lord.

Mahesh who does the regular Pooja

Cheyyar river just 5 ft away from Nandi

once upon a time the temple car (தேர் ) used to go round the temple on festive days, but now there is hardly 5 ft space to go around the temple, especially  on the river side where there is a big dip due to removal of river sand by various agencies over a period of time. The above picture shows the river side from the temple entrance.

Recently, the local people had a meeting and broadly discussed plans to rebuild the stone structure which would involve a huge financial outlay. only after a series of meetings  will things  take shape. This village is said  to have a lot of retired teachers  who have settled elsewhere and they need to come together to revive the past glory of this temple.

Kudos to the youngsters who are doing a great job now. 

From April 2015 we have adopted this temple under daily pooja scheme at a monthly remuneration of Rs 500.