It is said that temples dedicated to Lord Brahma, one of the gods—along with Lord Vishnu and Lord Siva—that form the Trinity in Hinduism are rare. There are hardly ten such temples in the country. While the ones in Pushkar, Thirupattur, and Barmer are famous, there is a lesser-known Brahma temple in a small village in Andhra Pradesh.
A quiet town, Chebrolu, in Guntur district, located around 50 km from Vijayawada, is referred to by many, both people here and historians, as a land of temples. A general belief runs in the town that there are more than 100 small and big temples.
“Chebrolu can be passed off as any small town, but on a closer look, one understands the history and culture that it has been carrying for centuries now. Neither Vijayawada nor Guntur may have as many temples as Chebrolu does. The ones that we see today are but the tip of the iceberg. Modernisation has pushed many more into oblivion,” former superintending archaeologist D. Kanna Babu says.
