Venkatachalapathy Swamy Temple, Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu India

The Venkatachalapathy Swamy Temple is situated about 7 kilometres from Kumbakonam in the district of Thanjavur. The deity Venkatachalapathy Swamy is also called Oppiliappan or 'the one without salt'. The Temple prasadam is therefore made without salt. The deity is believed to be the brother of Lord Venkateshwara of Tirupathi. The Temple is believed to serve as an equivalent substitute for those who can't make it to the famed temple in Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh.

Sri Venkatachalapathy Temple is a Hindu temple situated in Trivandrum, Kerala, about a minute walk from the southern gate of Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple. It is also known as Srinivasar kovil, Perumal Kovil, Iyyengar Kovil or Desikar Sannidhi. The temple was built in 1898. The pooja's in kerala temples are based on the Namboodiri sambradayam, instead this is the only temple in Kerala dedicated to Vaishanavite Vadakalai Sambradayam.

Venkatachalapathy Swamy Temple is located just 7 km from the town of Kumbakonam, and is a very famous temple of Lord Vishnu and his consort Goddess Lakshmi.

In the temple, the God is venerated in the form of Venkatachalapathy, also known as Uppiliappan, Uppiliappan and Thiruvinnagarappan; all these are different names of Lord Vishnu. Devi Lakshmi is also worshipped here in the form of Bhoomidevi.