Chenna Kesava Perumal temple, set at Devaraja Mudali Street in Sowcarpet space of Chennai town, India, is one in all the few tempels designed with the help from British Malay Archipelago Company. Chenna Kesava Perumal temple is extremely recent. the initial Chenna Kesava temple was set even within the seventeenth century AD within the location wherever the Madras tribunal is presently set.

The British Malay Archipelago Company razed this temple in 1757 AD. because of public outcry, they given land and a few cash to Manali Muttukrishna Mudaliar, United Nations agency designed the new Chenna Kesava Perumal temple within the year of 1762. along side this Vishnu temple, he conjointly designed a temple for Shiva - Chenna Malleeswarar temple, so Chennai got twin temples. there's a theory that the town Chennai was named once the Chenna Kesava Perumal temple. once the initial temple was gift, there have been plenty of issues in Chennai like invasion by French and pride of Bolivia grand Turk. The clergymen of the temple took the idols of Chenna Kesava to Tiruneermalai temple close to Chennai.