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Nataraja temple in chennai

Shiva is worshipped in three stages they are

1. Formless ( real status of god)

2. Intermediate form ( Shiva lingam)

3. Form (eg Natarajan, dakshnamoorthi...etc)

In the above third stage Shiva is worshipped in thousands of form among those Natarajan form of Shiva is considered as the top most super form of lord Shiva

Nataraja form is a philosophycal for which represent many philosophys especially secrets behind the creation of universe and how universe is working..etc

this form of nataraja is worshipped as main diety in Chidambaram temple which is wold famous

Like Chidambaram in Chennai there are two small temples dedicated to this form of shiva even though there are lot of Natarajan shrins in Chennai even they are big in size they are not main diety they are all part of particular Shiva temple

List of Nataraja temples

First one at Chennai ,porur ,Alapakkam

Alapakkam, Nataraja temple is located in ayyavu naicken street ,Alapakkam, Chennai-600116

It is a small temple dedicated to lord Nataraja ,where yearly six Nataraja abishekams  are performed  in  great manner among two are celebrated  as festival.here daily two times Pooja's are done to maragatha lingam. people around this area call this temple as chennaiyil Chidambaram .very very popular among local people and they are very much attached to nataraja

Second one is in Chennai choolai

The Chidambareswarar (Natarajar) Temple is located in the A.P. Road, Choolai, Chennai. The temple is around 1 km away from the Choolai bus stand.

This temple is very famous and yearly aarudra festival  is celebrated in great manner .six abishekams are done in great manner, here daily spadiga lingam pooja is done.