Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple, Malleshwara, Bengaluru | Did you know that Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple in Malleshwara in Bengaluru, though built in 1902, is reckoned ancient as it is deified with the Moola Vigraha of Lord Krishna playing the flute which had been earlier consecrated in or before 997 AD at Tirukadaluru in Tamilnadu?
Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple, Malleshwara, Bengaluru Did you know that Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple in Malleshwara in Bengaluru, though built in 1902, is reckoned ancient as it is deified with the Moola Vigraha of Lord Krishna playing the flute which had been earlier consecrated in or before 997 AD at Tirukadaluru in Tamilnadu? Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple, popularly known as "Krishnar Kovil", is located in the predominantly Srivaishnava suburb of Malleshwaram, also spelled Malleshwara (ಮಲ್ಲೇಶ್ವರ), which developed as a suburb in 1892 in Bengaluru after a plague epidemic. The temple structure as such was the result of the efforts of prominent residents of Malleshwara, who in 1902 AD sought the help of then queen, Maharani Kempa Nanjammani Vani Vilasa Sannidhana of Mysore Kingdom; she was the queen regent following the untimely death of Chamaraja Wodeyar X, as their son Krishnaraja Wodeyar was a minor until 1902 . The queen readily agreed to not only partly fund (seed m...
