Author: Aaditya Anand M

Guindy is a locality in the city that houses many industries. In the late 1950s, the government allotted lands to the people working in those industries to settle in closeby and through this Labour Colony came into existence. As people moved in, going by the popular Tamil maxim ‘Kovil Illa Ooril Kudi Irukka Vendam’ which means ‘Don’t live in a town that doesn’t have a temple’, they wanted to build a temple and kept a small Vinayagar idol for worship, which has become Sri Prasiddhi Vinayagar temple today.

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