Alapakkam

Alapakkam
neighbourhood
Alapakkam
Alapakkam
Alapakkam
Coordinates: 13°02′56″N 80°10′02″E / 13.0490°N 80.1673°E / 13.0490; 80.1673Coordinates: 13°02′56″N 80°10′02″E / 13.0490°N 80.1673°E / 13.0490; 80.1673
Country India
State Tamil Nadu
District Chennai
Maduravoyal Taluk Chennai
Languages
 • Official Tamil
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN 600 116
Vehicle registration TN-10

Alapakkam is a neighbourhood in western Chennai. It is surrounded by Porur, Valasaravakkam and Maduravoyal. It is part of Chennai corporation under zone 11. Entry in to Alapakkam is through two main roads i.e. Arcot road and Poovirundhavalli High road.

Areas in Alapakkam:

  • Perumal Koil Street
  • Ayyavu Naicker Street
  • Govindappa Naicker Street
  • Ponniyamman Kovil Street
  • Karpaga Vinayagar Colony
  • RAJIV GANDHI NAGAR
  • Krishna Nagar
  • Ashtalakshmi Nagar
  • Sundar Nagar

Alapakkam has many Schools and Educational institutions.

  • Velammal Vidyalaya School
  • Sree Adithya Matriculation School
  • Meenakshi Dental College
  • Seven Hills Polytechnic
  • Muthukumaran Engineering college
  • Acharya Shiksha Mandir (Ashtalakshmi Nagar)
  • Devi Academy School

Mini Bus routes

S25 - Maduravoyal to Valasaravakkam [Route: Maduravoyal Earikarai-Aalapakkam Main Road-Meenakshi Dental College-Govt High School-Alapakkam-Arcot Road]
S38 - CMBT Metro to Valasaravakkam [Route: via Ashtalakshmi Nagar, MGR Road]
M49G - Thiruverkadu to T Nagar.

Temples

Nataraja temple

This is one of the famous temple in this area. Here lord worshipped in dancing form. There are only two Nataraja temple in Chennai were Nataraja is worshipped as main deity ,among this two temple this temple is one. Here Maragatha Lingam poojai is daily done two times. People around this area call this temple has Chennaiyil Chidambaram or Chennaiyil Thillai

Valliserapaleeshwarar Temple

Valliserapaleeshwarar Temple a native temple of Alappakkam. This temple is related with Vali in Ramayanam, thay say that Vali got the secret powers from lord Shiva by doing tapas here only so only god is called as Vali-sera-paleeshwarar now it has bean changed has Valliserapaleeshwarar.

Public utilities

  • Post Office for Alapakkam is located at Sakthi Nagar, Porur (Off Mount Poovirundhavalli Road).
  • Corporation Office is Zone located at Arcot Road.

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