Past and present of velachery

About velachery

About Velachery

Velachery lies in the southern outskirts of the Chennai city. The place is about 13 kms far from Chennai central. The region is essentially a residential place and with the increasing commercial and industrial. Velachery  has a historical temple called  Dhandeeswaram  temple  it believed to be made by a great king from the Chola Dynasty in the 11th century .DMK  political party leader and former vice chief minister   M.K stalin  have lived in velachey  for few years .velacher is only area have highest number of restaurant in south india  about 64 restaurant   

Vel achey is good place for worship about 23 worship place in velachery they are

Temples

Sri Yoga Narasimha Swamy, Velachery

Velachery is supposed to be abode of Shiva & Vaishnava Gods namely,

Dhandeeswaram (Dhandeeswarar) Temple

                     Sri Narasimha

                     Sri Vasudeva

                     Sri Soundara Narayana

                     Sri Anirudha

Sri Orandi Amman Temple near Police Station

Siva Vishnu Temple located in Vijaya Nagar.

Sri Soundarya Perumal Temple located at the rear side of 100 ft Bye-pass Road.

Thiruveedi Amman Temple located near Gandhi Road.

Shri Sidhi Vinayagar Temple located near Guru Nanak college.

Papathi Karumariyamman Temple, Dr.Ambedkar Nagar, West Velachery,

Muthumariamman Temple, Dr.Ambedkar Nagar, West Velachery.

Throupathi Amman Temple in Jaganathpurum.

Chelliamman Temple in Velachery Main Road.

Ayyappa Temple in 100 Feet Road.

Guruvayoorappan Temple in Dhandeeswaram.

Churches

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church located at Dhandeeswaram Nagar known to be a largest Church in Velachery

Advent Church located in Gandhi Salai it is oldest church in Velachery and has completed 125 years.

CSI Church located at Gandhi road is famous and the oldest one.

Apostolic Faith Church "in Dr Ambetkar Nagar, Velachery west.

Calvary Church located behind TCS lane telugu and English Service.

Masjids

Masjid-e-Allah, near TCS.

Masjid Hawwa, near Velachery lake.

Masjid-e-Rizwan, near Checkpost.

Masjid Elaahi, Gandhi Road Junction.

Velachery is geographically surrounded by IIT Madras in the north-east, Taramani in the east, Adambakkam in the northwest. Most of the lands are populated with houses. As more and more IT parks are emerging on the Old Mahabalipuram road, IT & working-class people are settling in Velachery. 

There are three arterial roads namely Velacheri Main Road, Tharamani Link Road, and Velacheri Bypass Road. and  The most posh areas in velachery are Seethapathy Nagar, Dhandeeswaram and Vijaya Nagar. Some other areas are Ramagiri Nagar, Baby Nagar, Seshadripuram, Annai Indira Nagar, Anna Nagar, Tansi Nagar, Sarathy Nagar, Udhayam Nagar, AG's colony, Ram Nagar, Devi Karumariamman Nagar, Gangai Nagar, Venkateshwara Nagar and Velachery TNHB.

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Velachery Dhandeeswaram Temple

 The Dhandeeswaram Temple in Velachery is a historical site, which has inscriptions believed to be made by a great king from the Chola Dynasty in the 11th century. There is lot of Tamil inscriptions found around Karuvarai wall .Velachery was known as Vedashreni meaning “Abode of Vedas”during the Chola period

There are a lot of stone inscriptions around the temple which provide valuable information about the temple.

Many kings belonging to the Chola dynasties have donated lands to the temple. A devotee hailing from Arcot has built the shrine of Ganesha inside the temple. He has also made provisions for the Nithya pooja. Another devotee has made arrangements for lighting the lamp in the sanctum sanctorum of the deities.The temple is called Thirudhandeeswaram .Velachery is also called Dhinachinthamani.Chaturvedi mangalam. It is named after the queen Dhina chintamani queen of Kulothungan.

   Dhandam refers to the weapon used by the lord Yamah. When Lord Yamah, threw the rope on Markandeyah to take his life, Markendeyan held on to a shivalingam. So the rope actually fell on Lord Shiva himself, which angered the God and He destroyed the weapon Dhandam. Later on, Lord Yamah, did penance and got back his Dhandam, from the pond  in the Dhandeeswaram Temple. As the “Dhandam” was given back by Lord Shiva, He is called as “Dhandeeswarar”. Velacher many main street name also Dhandeeswaram main road

As 4 Vedas worshipped here the place here came to be known as Vedasreni, which is today’s Velachery. It is also beleived that, as these Vedas and many other sages performed Yagnas here the place got its name as Velvichery which turned out to be Velachery today

Velachery wood market

Velachery Wholesale Market Complex popularly known as the velachery wood market , is an wholesale Coal and wood (casurina post) market situated near the velachery railway station Chennai,. This market Established in 1994, before market before situated in mylapour had to be closed due to the less transport facility and parking for lorry and heavy vehicle velachery wood and coal market is the largest market in chennai that supply to whole Chennai city

                Velachery wood market named as PERUM THALAIVAR KAMARAJAR WOOD MARKET name of former chief minister of tamilnadu more than 50 lorry of wood (casurina post )and coal will daily pass through this market to different part of city market start at 4 o clock in early morning and end at 6 A.M business hours only two hours whit in that all load of wood will be sold this one of fastest market in Chennai

                   Mr.Jayaraj is one of business man who regularly come market he said “perum thalaivar kamarajar wood market one of the fastest market in chennai hundred of business man come early in morning most of them are sport cash purchase some business man also come from kanchipuram” This casurina post is used for many purpose such as making ladder building temporary house, tent etc