The most attractive feature of this temple is the imposing 7 tiered gopuram . It was built in modern times, though the basic shrine seems to have a centuries long history . It is a vast campus , with a large, open courtyard , very pleasant and breezy in the evening , which comes as a surprise as the temple is situated in a very congested locality with narrow lanes. Modern additions include dioramas of mythological stories around the vimanam . A short walk away from the temple is the temple tank , with fairly clean water .

Fav temple located nearby saidapet railway station have visited here on my exam days since it's near to railway station, like this temple gopuram it's so beautiful, heard it's also very powerful temple must visit if u got time ❤️

Great place and get divine blessings.. Get inner peace

Located in West saidapet.. Oldest temple in the heart of the chennai city. Railway station and bus stop is accessible. Temple is well maintained. Seprate way is available for physically challenged person. Parking is biggest issue.

Temple is really big and seems very old but still strong. Visited to do puja of my new bike and everything happened very much well. Appreciate the behaviour of pujari ji and the staffs..

Heritage structure which has pandya fish insignias is several roofs inside the main temple, most of the possible inscriptions and history has been defaced in the name of renovation with marble . It looks neat for the religious folks but we have deleted a lot of history which we can be proud of. Hopefully the remaining structures will be preserved by our future citizens.

Heard a lot about lot this temple visited today first time, so beautiful, very well maintained and as always full of divine energy. This is in one of the must visited places in Chennai now I understand why. Please do visit

This temple is located very nearby to Saidapet Railway station. Archanai ticket cost 5rs In this temple Sowarnambikai and Karaneswarar both are main gods. Vinayakar, Murugar, Kuberar temple also there inside this temple. Koburam was beautiful and lots of pigeons inside the temple adds more Divinity. Temple is maintained clean. Prodhosha vinayakar dharshan is very famous during prodhosams.

Old temple, yet neatly maintained. Its a very large area. You get to pray peacefully. Easily accessible

Lord Kaaraneeswarar and his consort Goddess Sornambikai are both beautiful, majestic and graceful. This is considered to be a Navagraha Parihara Sthalam (for Budhan) of Chennai. This place is called as Kaaraneechuram. There is a sannidhi inside this temple for Lord Soundareswarar with his consort Goddess Thripurasundari. Legend says that Sivachaitanya Muni, Aathonda Chakravarthy and Gurulinga Swamy attained Mukthi by worshipping Lord Shiva here. Both Temple & Temple pond are big and well maintained. Must visit temple.

Karaneeswarar Temple is a Hindu temple located in the neighborhood of Saidapet in Chennai, India. It is dedicated to Shiva. This is an ancient Temple presently managed by the HR & CE department of the Government of Tamil Nadu. The Goddess is known as "Swarnambika" (The Golden Mother). Apart from this, there are separate shrines for Lord Ganapathi,Lord Karthikeya and other Parivara Devtas. This temple is located next to the Saidapet Railway station.Lord Indra having given his divine cow " Kamadhenu" to Sage Vashishta is worried as she has not returned even after a long time .He find out that she has been cursed into becoming an ordinary one because she had created obstacles during Pooja and Prayer of Sage Vashishta. He consults his Ganas and on that basis finds out that the Holy Cow Kamadhenu can be redeemed if he constructs a Temple to Lord Shiva in between Mylapore and Thiruvanmiyur on the North western direction. He then ordains the clouds (Kar) to rain and cool the area thereby creating a wonderful green pasture. He installs a Linga and prays to the Lord Shiva - who redeems the holy cow and also blesses Lord Indra by granting him the status of Gopathi ( Lord of Cows). The tank made by Indra is known as Gopathi Saras. It is said that people who take a ritual bath in this tank on full moon days get cured of many of their illnesses.This temple has a 7-storied Gopuram with two prakarams(closed precincts of a temple). This temple has a beautiful tank. We come across the shrine for Ganesha and as we move further after circumambulating the temple we come across the Shrine for Lord Karthikeya and further as we move towards the Dwajasthamba we cross the shrine of Lord Vedagiriswara. We enter the main precinct of the Temple where the main Shrine of Lord Karaneeswara and the Goddess Swarnambika are situated. We find beautiful idols of Lord Dakshinamoorthy and Nayanmars installed inside the inner Prakara (Precinct). There are also separate shrines for Lord Palani Andavar, Lord Virabhadra and Lord Surya inside the temple. Beside the Temple is the temple tank and on the steps of the tank we can find a shrine for Lord Ganesha - who is in a standing posture along with his consorts siddhi and Buddhi. This temple has nandavanam (Garden) as well. The temple is heavily crowded on Pradhosham days. The Annual ten-day Brahmotsavam takes place in the Tamil month of Chithirai. During Chitirai thirvizha, people visit the temple in huge numbers and there will be a daily spiritual talk on Thiruvasagam about Lord shiva. On the "Shiv Rathri" occasion the temple is attractively decorated...

Beautiful temple in Chennai like the temples in Kumbakonam. I like to go to this temple frequently since no heavy crowd and always you can hear the mangala isai in morning time. Also temple structure is beautiful and gives peace when I spend sometime there..

Karaneeswarar Temple is a ancient Hindu temple built in Dravidian architecture located at Saidapet in Chennai. It is dedicated to Lord Shiva. The Goddess is known as "Swarnambika" Apart from this, there are separate shrines for Lord Ganesha Lord Muruga amongst others. This temple is located adjacent to the Saidapet Railway station.

Ancient and Historic Temple..

Powerful temple... Keep praying... Nallathey_Nadakum

Due to my busy schedule l could not enter the temple. But prayed from outside. Big and busy temple, and outside premises. Thankyou

Great temple near by saidapet railway station Square shaped lingam and divine grace of God. Visit and experience the vibration. All festival throughout the year conducted here

Big temple with many gods.. divine place.. peaceful

In Maha Shivaratri I visited Arulmigu karaneeswarar temple, that time I feel I was in my village festival experience. Snack shops, kutties favourite balloons etc. Temple is simply awesome. The positive vibes of Shivan is very very blissful to me. We can see all of the major god's inside this temple. In this temple they represents five pancha bootha sthalams in temple walls.

Didn't anticipate such a big Temple in busy Saidapet area. Totally blessed to visit this divine place.

Karaneeswarar Temple is a Hindu temple located in the neighborhood of Saidapet in Chennai, India. It is dedicated to Shiva. This is an ancient Temple presently managed by the HR & CE department of the Government of Tamil Nadu. The Goddess is known as "Swarnambika" (The Golden Mother). Apart from this, there are separate shrines for Lord Ganapathi, Lord Karthikeya and other Parivara Devtas. This temple is located next to the Saidapet Railway station.

Arulmigu Karneeswarer koil, one of the oldest temple in Chennai, Saidapet. It is next to Saidapet Railway Station. It is also an very ancient temple having Lord Shiva as main deity, with Parvathi Sannathi. It is a very big temple. A must visit for all Hindus.

One of the Famous sivan temples in chennai located next to Sidhapet Railway station. It's well maintained and gives a good vibe while visiting. Festival time is a 10 day series of events and the whole road is filled with lots of temporary shops activities.

One of the best temple. It's located nearby saidapet railway station. Dear devotees please visit once.. Shiva will fulfill your requirements 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Very spiritual, Karana = Reason for eveything in our life, fate whatever we say. Just surrender and everything will be changed

Peaceful place to visit it's not over crowded during normal days

Beautiful and powerful Shivan temple

Very pleasent place. Im going there from my childhood days. Lots of things changed in that temple but not the power of Thiru karaneeswarar god. You can have all solutions for your problem when you go to that temple.

Karaneeswarar Temple is located near Saidapet railway stationin, Chennai.This temple has a 7-storied Gopuram with two prakarams(closed precincts of a temple). The main deity is Lord Karaneeswara and Goddess Swarnambikai. The main shrine houses a lot of very beautiful idols. The idols of Ganesha, Sekkizhar, 63 Nayanmars, Shiv Lingam, Bhairav, and Surya are found. The outer wall of Karaneeswarar sanctum has the beautiful idols of Ganesha, Dakshinamurthy, Vishnu, Brahma, Durga, and Chandikeswara. The main shrine also houses few sanctums where the utsav (metal) idols of Nataraj-Sivakami, Karaikal Ammaiyar, Somaskandar, Chandrasekhar, Bikshadanar, Shanmuga with Valli and Devasena, Murugan with Valli and Devasena, and some important nayanmars. All the idols are exceptionally good; This temple has a big water tank. Must have darshan of this old temple.

Such a peacefull place to visit... very near to saidapet railway station.

It was nice and good

Good Maintenance

Good Place to Absorb Positive vibes that makes you Stress free.Good Infrastructure with Beautiful Raja gopuram

Host place

Excellent temple in the middle of the city. Entering for the first time, amazed.

wonderful and powerful temple in India.. really a great positive vibes are there.. great architecture.. really superb..

Great place

Holy place. A temple which is usually crowded. They do maintain well. It will be nice if they had more volunteers to guide and make the queue move faster duing the crowded days.

Navarathi celebrations started on, Temple well decorated with lights also classical dance tuned to ambaal and devaram songs filled our eyes with joy. Delightful to see shiv and ambaal with Pooja arathi done. We spent a huge time here never feel like going home.

The historical temple of chennai situated at saidapet Arulmigu Sri karaneeswarar temple.All Hindu devotees must visit.

Peace full place in this temple is walkable distance from saidapet railway station

The Temple is so good and clean Can relax and good place to be free Pooja's were done in evening also very near to saidapet Railway station

Verygood location for paarayanam (chanting) and meditation

One of the best temples and easy to reach. Through the local train. Sidapet Stop. Temple is located near by railway station. We went on festival time. So we see the urchava moorthi of sornambikai. Nice atmosphere

Divine feeling. A temple where I grew up as a young man. Lucky to see abhisekham in the morning. Well maintained.

One of the best temples in chennai. Well maintained.... Very very Near to Sidapet sub urban train station . Please note 11am ..to 4 pm closed ...After Darshan you can go to next suburban railway station mumbalam and get down .....walk for 5 minutes to have excellent Shopping centers . Pothys ....Chennai silk etc

My daughters favourite temple to go and play with pegions. She loves to go here every day with a bag of food?

One of the major things which attracted me was the spacious temple arena. After the darshan, we can sit anywhere and meditate peacefully.

One of the oldest eswaran temple in Saidapet. Crowd will be more during auspicious days. Managed under trust funded by government. Vinayagar, karaneeswarar, ambal, another eswarar and ambal, Subramania swamy with valli and deivanai, saneeswarar, palani murugan, anjaneyar, veerabathirar, nandhi and navagraha swamy are there.

One of the.oldest temple in Chennai All festival is celebrated very grand. Pirathosam is one of them, huge crowd vil b there.on that day

I visited on Prathosam day at 8 pm. Limited pilgrims in line and just five minutes for Dharsan. Worship Lord Shiva satisfactory. Neat and clean temple inside.

I love the gopuram at the entrance of the temple, it's view is breathtaking. The temple is very vast, peaceful and the architecture of each and every state and walls is elegant. The main diety 🙏🏻Karaneeswarar, took me into trance. The priests are polite, and I had a very blessed Darshan. I recommend everyone to visit this shrine which gives a positive vibe.

Very old ancient temple to worship, located at near saidapet railway station.

One of the oldest Shiva temples inside city. It is very near to Saidapet railway station. The presiding deity is Sri Karaneeswarar and Sornambigai. This temple is greatly maintained by the Uzhavaram group. Fan of Anna dhanam happening in the temple. Temple is eventful on Shiva involved festivals.

A historical temple, maintainance is good you can try this temple near to railway sation

My childhood hang out.... Now i understand more about the temple and the grace of the deities Karpagambal and Kabali. Love everything about this temple.

Neat and clean and absolutely well maintained. They also give good quantity of prasadam. After darshan you can have this in a relaxed mood.

My favourite temple.. Feeling relaxed after going there... Om namahshivaya

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I love this temple

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Love it

One of best devotional temple in Chennai

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Felt very vibrant and peace. But roads near temple must be widened. Too much trFic during special days

Very good place to get your mind Relax..

Big , clean , well maintained temple , must visit, easy access with good parking

Devine

Divine place...full of positive vibes..

Well defined temple in saidapet , you can see ancient houses and streets nearby and very old hotels nearby , visit , roam around the streets for such beautiful spots , if you're an Photographer take your camera come for street photowalk , you would definitely get some amazing shots here

Good

Big temple for lord Shiva. Bit difficult for car praking on weekends.

Peaceful place

Peaceful and plesent place

Holy place. Spacious and divine. Maintained so clean. Best place to spend time with friends and family

VERY BEST TEMPLE OF INTERESTS

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One of the ancient temples of Chennai dedicated to Lord Shiva. Located very near to Saidapet Railway Station at walkable distance. Temple premises is maintained very neatly. There is a very big Temple Tank, which is also maintained clean. Adjoining the Temple, a Hall is available for performing religious rites (16th day Ceremony etc) for dead family members. Compared to similar halls at other places, this place is Maintained better.

Very spacious Temple

A silent place

One of the big temple inside city. Recently renovated 2 years back. Temple carnation s are excellent, by seeing all the art we would be forget all our worries. And it remains till 9 pm

Went early morning that bliss when all dives and birds were eating cereals

Pleasant place

Loved this place powerful temple

Very calm temple in midst of crowded saidapet.the prakaram is big.can spend serene evening.

Peaceful place

Beautiful temple at Saidapet. Very neat and clean. Devendran installed shiv lingam is here. Very near to Saidapet railway station. View the temple video in the YouTube channel - Channel River Oaks.

Divine Place to visit in Holidays with friends and family to get Godly Love, Happiness and Peace. .

Nice temple ti pray