Sennammal Temple | சென்னம்மாள் கோவில்

local village twin temples in called Chennammal temple and Venkatramana Perumal temple at a little village called Neepathurai near Thiruvannamalai town. Usually village deities have a very interesting story behind them! This one too has one.
Chennammal is considered the younger sister of Lord Vishnu, in the local lore. Once when she was bathing in the river in this locality, she drowned into the water. The river is called Then Pennai aru South Pennar River. She took the name of Lord Vishnu, who is called Venkatramanar here, as her final words.
The place where she drowned is where the rock formations are located today and the rocks are worshiped today as Chennammal herself, and rituals include pouring milk, yoghurt etc and finally turmeric paste is applied, followed by dots of kumkum!!! Women do this ritual, after taking bath in the river nearby with the soaking wet clothes!!! a top these rocks are the trees of banyan and neem, both of which are considered auspicious in Hindu religion.
It is believed that she walks through a tunnel to reach Venkatramanar temple at the middle of the night, from these rock formations. This Vishnu temple, has a separate room that has the opening to the tunnel.till a few decades ago the tunnel was accessible, but now, sadly, it isn’t so.
The Chennammal temple is located in the middle of the river and till about 2-3 years ago, this was accessible only by walking across the river. earlier the place had only rocks and in high tides they'd be half inside water. Coracles would be needed to access the temple which was nothing but just the rock and the trees. Today a concrete building has been built all around these rock formations, pushing it a bit away from nature! Now a concrete bridge is in place for easier access from the river bank.

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From Tiruvannamalai: 60 km via Neepathurai, Chengam
From Chengam: 25 km towards S.W
From Harur: 33 km towards N.E