Hindu Temples in Chennai, India — Find 1,063+ Sacred Sites

Hindu Temples in Chennai

Chennai is Tamil Nadu’s coastal capital and the largest urban temple cluster in the directory, with Hindu temples spanning everything from the ancient Parthasarathy Temple at Triplicane — one of the 108 Divya Desams, dedicated to Vishnu in his Krishna form, with Pallava-era foundations and later additions by Cholas and Vijayanagar rulers — to the Mylapore Kapaleeshwarar Temple, a Shaivite shrine whose towering gopuram is among Chennai’s most recognised landmarks. The city’s temple landscape also includes the Marundeeswarar Temple at Thiruvanmiyur, the Ashtalakshmi Temple on the Besant Nagar coastline, the Vadapalani Murugan Temple, and dense networks of neighbourhood Amman, Vinayagar, and Murugan shrines tied to specific colonies and communities. As a metropolitan area, Chennai’s directory entries cover heritage temples and the modern suburban temples built during the city’s twentieth-century expansion.