Velachery
Monday 20 May 2013
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.
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
todayVelachery 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
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
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