The Tamil Nadu government has allotted Rs.19 crores to build a new temple dedicated to saint Thiuvalluvar in Mylapore. It will replace the brick and mortar temple that exists today.
Chief minister M. K. Stalin is expected to lay the foundation stone for the project soon.
New shrines for Valluvar and his wife, Vasuki are to be built.
A well-known stapathi is to be assigned for the project which proposes a single, elevated structure and designed in a manner that highlights a chariot pulled by elephants.
Other plans include a shrine for Valluvar’s parents and a large pond with statues of Avvaiyar and Sangam greats placed on its banks.
It is believed that the poet-philosopher Valluvar was born under a illupai tree at a spot where the temple now stands, in an inner street of Mylapore, off Nattu Subbaraya Street and at the north end of Sri Mundagakanni Amman Temple.
