Thiruvenkadu (also spelled Thiruvengadu) is a village in Sirkazhi taluk of

Mayiladuthurai district Mayiladuthurai District is one of the youngest districts of Tamil Nadu, having been carved out from Nagapattinam district, Nagapattinam District in 2020. Tamil Nadu has 38 districts in total, and Mayiladuthurai is among them, located in the sout ...

in the

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. It is located from the taluk headquarter,

Sirkazhi Sirkazhi (), also spelled as Sirkali and Siyali, is a selection grade municipal town in Mayiladuthurai district in Tamil Nadu, India. It is located from the coast of the Bay of Bengal, and from the state capital Chennai. Sirkazhi was a part o ...

. The village is also the birth place of Pattinathar, a

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Tamil scholar and saint who attained salvation in Thirvotriyur near Chennai.

Demographics

Thiruvenkadu has the population of 8252, of which males are just 4126 while females are 4126. The literacy rate of Thiruvenkadu, as per 2011 census is 82.89 per cent.

Temples

Swetharanyeswarar Temple Swetharanyeswarar Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the deity Shiva, located in Thiruvenkadu, a village in Mayiladuthurai district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Shiva is worshiped as Swetharanyeswarar, and is represented by the ' ...

is a

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temple in Thiruvenkadu. The main deity is Swetharaneswarar (Shiva) but there is a separate

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for Budhan (Mercury).

References

Villages in Mayiladuthurai district {{Mayiladuthurai-geo-stub