Cheluvanarayana Swamy Temple

Cheluvanarayana Swamy Temple is a masterpiece of craftsmanship for its pillars and sculptures. This is built in a Dravidian temple style. A large pond is built near its foot hill, were its main steps starts. This pond is a stone built and are formed in step shaped design. It has got a very good stone block steps. These steps have arched pillars on its ways to take rest by the pilgrims. The entrance is really beautiful with a triangular tower known as the Gopuram. This temple is in a square structure. The main entrance is a pillared structure with a gopuram on its top. The entire outer walls have a pillared corridor. These pillars are well carved with sculptures in it. If you enter inside you can find one more square structure, where the main deity is kept. The inner side of its main walls also has a pillared corridor as seen on the outer side of these walls. This pillared corridor is also looking like large mandaps (Porch). The most important feature of this temple is that it consist small temple like structure on its roof tops. These are lined in all direction with sculptures of Hindu ditties on it. This seems like guards of this temple. All the pillars are looking so amazing that each and every pillar has its own story to tell by its sculptures and its miniature craft works on these stone.