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Mallikeswarar Temple Tank (Waterbodies of Chennai - 24)

Mally Carjun's Old Pagoda - that's how the English records of 1650s referred this Temple located in Lingi Chetti Street of George Town locality in Chennai. It is evident that this temple of Mallikeswarar is much older than the British period. In 1800s and the early 1900s there were so many renovations and extensions done by the Chettiar community.

The magnificent temple has a small Tank occupying an area of about 0.2 acre, which is supposed to be beautiful, but unfortunately it is not. From the olden days, the water management system has played an important role in the temple architecture. You cannot find a temple with a tank. Apart from serving for the spiritual needs, the tanks helped the villages or towns to maintain ground water tables. In the name of urbanization and due to our negligence, the network of inlets and outlets of such tanks are blocked and over the time, the tanks become a barren land. I don't want to comment anything about this temple tank. Check the photograph and you can understand the case very well. 

Click here to know more about this temple. 

Happy travelling.







Note: As per a report, there were about 650+ waterbodies in Chennai region till 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 had been shrunk badly. In Chennai, there are tank roads without tanks nearby and lake view roads without any lake in the vicinity. There is a high possibility that even the few waterbodies that we have today might vanish in the near future. I thought of visiting the currently surviving waterbodies of Chennai and its suburbs and write about them in my blog as a series.



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