- The Ashtalakshmi Kovil lies on the shorelines near the Elliot's beach, in Chennai, India. It is a temple to the Goddess Lakshmi. Ashta means eight, and the eight forms of Lakshmi are worshipped in this temple. Lakshmi is the consort of Lord Vishnu.

In this temple the eight lakshmi's are present in four levels. The shrine of Mahalakshmi & Mahavishnu is in level two. One starts the worship from here. One can take the stairs and the path leads to third floor which has the shrrines of Santhana lakshmi, Vijaya lakshmi, Vidya lakshmi and Gajalakshmi. Then again take a few steps and we reach the shrrine of DhanaLakshmi which is the only shrrine on the fourth floor. Exiting the main shrine, in the first level, there are Aadilakshmi, Dhaanya lakshmi and Dharyalakshmi.

The temple also has Dasavathara's(10 incarnations of Vishnu), Guruvayoorapan, Ganapati, Dhanwanthari and Anjaneyar deities.

(We have no photos in the shrine as they were prohibited.  The pictures that follow are on the street outside of the shrine.)

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtalakshmi_Kovil]