Lord Vishnu is portrayed as Sleeping on a Bedroll of a Huge Snake in Paarkkadal,Ksheera Sagara(Ocean of Milk).
This is allegory.
Lord Vishnu does not sleep.
His sleep is called Yoga Nidra (Sleeping posture i Yoga) or Ari Thuyil(Tamil-sleeping while aware of everything)
The Snake Adisehsa is the coiled Cosmic energy in the Solar Plexus(Mooladhaara).
The Church is dedicated to St,Thomas who is reported to have landed in Chennai around 300 AD and spread Syrian Christianity .
This Saint Thomas was infamous Acts of Thomas by Bardesanes, and this is the source of the legend of St. Thomas in India.
Dr. Elst studied under Jesuits at Katholieke Universiteit in Belgium, Europe’s oldest Catholic university at Leuven, has done extensive research on this
subject and says that At.Thomas is a Fraud perpetrated on the Indians by corrupt Catholic priests to spread Catholicism in India.
The original Kapaleeswarar temple in Mylapore was ransacked , demolished by The Portuguese . a Church was built and was named as San Thome
Cathedral Basilica on the Mylapore beach in Chennai.
The original structure was a Shiva Temple, that of Kapaaleswara.
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