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Early modern · Hindu · India
Ekambareswarar Temple, Chennai
George Town, Chennai, Tamil Nadu · 13.0882°, 80.2784°
ShivaColonial Madras—
Sacred since
1680 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1680s
Colonial Madras
History & significance
A Shiva temple on Mint Street in George Town, Chennai, built in the 1680s by Alanganatha Pillai, a dubash to the British East India Company. It appears on a 1710 map of Madras as 'Allingall's Pagoda' and stands among the Jain shrines and the Kandaswami temple of the same street.