can I request members to list the historical locations in the city and suburbs that deserve a visit.( add a line on their importance)
special appreciation will be given to mention of land marks that precede the founding of the city( anything older than 350 years)
to start with I list the 6 paadal petra thevara sthalams within the city 1. thiruvotriyur 2. mylapore 3. thiruvanmiyur 4. paadi 5. thiru mulaivoil 6 thiruverkadu( shiva temple)
Other temples / places 7. Thambaram Shiva Temple - Sundara chola period 8. Pallavaram Mahendra Cave temple - Converted to dargah
Around Chennai
1. Sholingar - Kadikachalam - Pallava school 2. Thiruaalangadu - Famous shiva temple - Karaikkal ammaiyar (..appan aadumidam thiru aalangade) 3. Singaperumal koil kudaivarai 4. Mahabalipuram 5. Thirukazzhukundram - Pallava cave - Hilltop temple - Bhaktavatsala temple below has THE MOST ANCIENT inscription talking about a temple grant of pre simhavishnu (skanthasishya) 6. Thiruvellarai - Rajaraja - Mention of bharatava cheri (Fishermen village) 7. Thiruvallam - vandhiyathevan 8. Melpadi - 2 temples both chola masterpieces - I found a north indian ganapathi here along with sapthamathas - probably rajaraja / rajendra's conquest 9. Thiruthani veerataneswarar - first pallava with devakoshtas as in present form
> LUZ CHURCH - near Devaki Hospital on the back yard of isabels. both are in the same compound built in 1516. luz means light in portugese. the sailors followed a light into the forest and built a church where it stopped.
The Guindy Race Course for horse racing was set up in 1777. now the race club is situated around the track.
Some older institutions are the Madras Christian College (1837), Presidency College (1840), Pachaiyappa's College (1842), the Madras Medical College (1835)
The Connemara Public Library built in 1890 is one of the four National Depository Centres in India. These centres receive a copy of all newspapers and books published in India. It also is a declared UNESCO information centre
1 war memorial near island ground the main monument perhaps said in memory of the soldiers who died in the service of the empire. the words empire seem to have been changed to " the nation". any body knows when it was changed?
2 cemetry at quibble island( mrc nagar)
nobody even knows this was an island. aiyappan temple, rohini garden and karpagam avenue as well as mrc nagar are on this island on adayar river.
Historical and Archaeologica sites in and around Chennai.
1. Fort. St.George and Old Church inside
2.Little Mount ( St.Thomas Mt.)
3.Kundrathur ( Sekkilar's Temple)
4.Pallavaram ( Mahendra Caves)
5.Thiruvottriur Adhipurishwara Temple ( Rajendira I and Karikala Cholas, Sundara Moorthy,Pattinathar, 27 Nakshatra Lingas, Numerous Tamil Inscription Pillars and Many more ,very very ancient place )
6. manimangalam
7.Mylapura
8.Theosophical society, World Head Quarters Adyar.
hi ha! ha! do you know that there is a precussor to Kannagi statue?
The statue of Lord Cornwallis(now in Fort Museum) was first erected in a cenotoph, from where the present C'toph road originated. The British residents of the Fort used the Mount Road from the Fort St. george to this place to have a ride and relax at the end in the monument during evening. Can we do so today?
It was erected for some years within the Fort in the square (now barricaded by the defence tyo have a basketball court)
Fine, then the statue went to its cupola in front of then Benetick (now the Singaravelar Maligai in front of Beach station.
the statue had the scenes of surrender of Tippu on the pederstal and it invited the irk of the Madras folk. So it was brought back to cupola within the Fort near the museum.
It is said that the first Indian commander of the Fort had to see the statue every in the morning when raises up from the bed as his bedroom was facing the statue. He was annoyed in seeing a man who broke the back of Tippu. So ordered its removal. It was taken to the Egmore Museum and erected in the Old building of Connemera Library. At last in 50's it reached its final destination at the Fort Museum.
Obviously I have no power to order its further removal!!!!!!!!
do you have the shell bits of battl ship emden in your museum?
and any idea of the thithankara statue in mogappair- ambattur industrial estate junction near the perumal temple there. how old is it? some people keep telling that it is the oldest thing in madras.
hi, the shell fragments are with us. Emden is an iteresting ship, she was able to cause havoc to the allied ships in the Indian ocean.she was able escape detection and entered singapore twice for rpairs. that why a fastidious person is called emden in tamil.
anyway my keyboard has some peculiar habits. keys m/n/,/.// very often goes out order. It is alawys m or others. Probably the warrenty period is over.
i am not too sure about the jaina thirthankara image. let first see that. may see it some time as i am busy with the minister,s vist to the museums next week.
the oldest monumnet around madras could be the darga on the pallavaram hillaock, it being a cave temple of mahendravarman and now a darga of course. pallavarm also sahres that honour of yielding the firat, i repeat, the first palaeolith stone tool in India. which is perhaps the forst to be discovered in the far east. so much so the prehistorians of London failed to believe that the antiquity of india dates back to lower palaeolithic times. It too a personal trip with findings for R.B.Foote to London to convince them.
i hear from dr.Satyamurthy that there are few brick temples in and around chennai, particuloarly tambaram. if properly studies they may even date to Pallava period, if not earlier.
could you arrange a visit to your museum for interested guys in the group. relics from neolithic to modern day emden would certainly take our minds of the cholas.
at one point we need to tell ourselves there is more to tamil history than these moovendars.
is you museum open on week ends.
if not is is open on krishna jayanthi ( 16th) let us know on monday
i think the Madras Day organisers has some show at the Fort st george. i am not in it tthis year due to my other preoccupation.
to visit the FM pl wait for few days ( may be in the last week of August) as we are repainting a majore portion of the museum due to ther visit of ther Minister (T&C) Ambika Soni.
our museum is exclusively devoted to british period artefacts only. rest of the artefacts are in the collection of asi.
we are one of the few govt. organisation working on all days except fridays and surprisingly on Jan 26, Aug 15, and Oct 2 too.
will you give a pat for our work culture? ha ha no sundays too!!!!
Also heard that the chola period copper plates are there in the museum. is it the egmore museum or the Fort St.George Museam? can you also arrange to see these? It would be great if we can have a look at it.
Venkatesh, coming back to the title, locations in chenna....worlds second beautiful beach.a vituteengale....Marina Beach ..:) And QMC pathi sonnavanga pakkathula erukkara vivekanda house pathi sollaliye.. It seems vivekanadar stayed there for a day or two when he was in chennai. Its also called Ice house...in those days, large ice blocks were brought through ships and transported to different part of the country from chennai. To store those ice blocks, they used this building and hence the name ice house. Thats what I read. But one thing I cant understand is, how can the ice be preserved till it is brought to india and transported to interior places? urigi poyidathu? Correct me if my information is wrong.
Last time I visited Madurai, inside the Omni bus station ( opp to Periyar bus station ) there is a small book shop. They had 2 books on the copper plates of Pandyas and Pallavas. Not sure if anything on Cholas. I didnt buy though, as I had very little time. Both are published by the World Tamil Research Center, Taramani, Chennai.
This news has not been publicised so much as it deserves to be
> now a darga of course. pallavarm also sahres that honour of yielding > the firat, i repeat, the first palaeolith stone tool in India. which > is perhaps the forst to be discovered in the far east.
which university in usa is named after a governor of madras?
YALE
ELIHU Yale, who had made a fortune through trade while living in India as a representative of the East India Company, donated nine bales of goods, which were sold for more than £560, a substantial sum at the time. Yale also donated 417 books and a portrait of King George I. Cotton Mather suggested that the school change its name to Yale College in gratitude to its benefactor, and to increase the chances that he would give the college another large donation or beque
did'nt clive also get married in st. mary's church?
what did he give by the way?
venketesh
> venkat > Yale was the first person to get married in the St. Mary's Church > within the Fort. He donated a silver alms dish to the church, all > are pride collection of our museum.