Arulmigu Vadapalani Murugan Temple
Murugan temple grown from a thatched hut, crowned by a painted stucco tower and busy with weddings.
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This guide to the Arulmigu Vadapalani Murugan Temple in Chennai follows Annaswami Nayakar, a devotee of modest means in the eighteen sixties, from a stubborn illness to a hill shrine at Tiruttani and a painting he could not pay for. It touches on his successor Rathinasamy Chettiyar and the renovations of the nineteen twenties. Best heard standing at the gate, looking up at the painted tower.
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