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Sri Uthira Vaithiyalingeshwarar Temple was a part of Pallava and Choha period temples . After Venbedu Sri Agastheeswarar, on the way to Thiruporur happened to see this temple at the junction of three roads with a tall Rajagopuram.

Location :
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Moolavar : Sri Uthira Vaithiyalingeshwarar
Consort : Sri Thaiyal Nayaki.

Some of the salient features of this temple are: The temple is facing east with a 5 tier Rajagopuram. Balipedam, dwajasthambam and Nandhi are after the Rajagopuram. There is another 3 tier Rajagopuram on the south side opposite to Ambal sannadhi. Moolavar is of Swayambu. Ambal is in the Arthamandapa facing south. In arthamandapam Vinayagar, Sekkizhar and Nalvar. In the outer prakaram Vinayagar, Murugan, Gajalakshmi, Sandikeswarar, Chevvai, Navagrahas, Nagars under Neem and Palm Tree ( Sthala Viruksha ) and Bhairavar. The temple Pond Agasthiyar Theertham is on the back side.

HISTORY:
Since there is no inscriptions and the temple was renovated completely, looking at the pillars of the arthamandapa, the temple may belongs to Vijayanagara or pre Vijayanagara period. The original temple may belongs to Chozha's period. The mukha mandapam called vasantha mandapam was built during 2003 and recent maha kumbhabhishekam was conducted on 2nd February 2004.

LEGEND:
This is a Chevvai parikara sthalam and is equivalent to Sri Vaitheeswaran temple near Kumbakonam. Also this is a Angaraga dhosha nivarthi sthalam. It is believed that Lord Shiva will remove all the obstacles in the marriage. Lord Shiva gave dharshan to Agasthiyar and also he gave the Kalyana kola dharshan. As per the legend, The sage Agasthiyar had done dhabas on Lord Shiva in this place, which was once surrounded by the forest with trees. Lord Shiva wants to make the Villagers to aware of sage Agasthiyar and spread the communicable decease. The Villagers do not know what to do and prayed to Agasthiyar to save them. In turn Agasthiyar also prayed. Lord Shiva told him to create a pond and worship him with the water. Agasthiyar had done as per Shiva’s advice and gave the abhishek theertha to all the people of the Kattur Village. The people got cured from all the deceases. It was told that even now no communicable decease will affect the Kattur Village. Since Lord Shiva cured the deceases, he is being called as “Vaithya- மருத்துவர்” and this temple is on the northern part of Tamil Nadu, “Uthira ( means North in Sanskrit) ” is prefixed to this temple’s name.

POOJAS AND CELEBRATIONS
Apart from regular poojas Vaikasi visakam, Navarathri, Karthigai deepam, Arudra Dharshan, Maha Sankaranthi and Panguni uthiram with Lord Shiva’s thirukalyanam.

TEMPLE TIMINGS:
The temple will be kept opened between 06.00 hrs to 11.00 hrs and 16.30 hrs to 20.00 hrs.

HOW TO REACH:
City bus route no 551 Manampathi / Acharavakkam passes this place.
Kattur is about 17.00 KM from Mambakkam via Kayar, 6.7 KM from Thiruporur and 35 KM from Tambaram.
Share auto and autos are available from Thiruporur