Egmore

Egmore [ eɡmo ː r] or Ezhumbur (Tamil: எழும்பூர் Eḻumpūr [ jeɻɯmbu ː r] ) is a district of Chennai (Madras ), the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Egmore is located in the center of Chennai, and in addition to the Chennai Egmore railway station, a number of buildings from the British colonial period as the Government Museum, and St. Andrew 's Church.

Location

Egmore is located in the center of Chennai, on the north bank of the Cooum River. The boundaries of the neighborhood are not exactly defined, Egmore can, however, against the districts Chetput in the West, Kilpauk in the northwest and the north Purasawalkam delimit. In the south separates the Cooum Egmore of Chintadripet, Thousand Lights and Nungambakkam.

Administratively, the area of Egmore is in Zone Royapuram. In the election for Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly ( the Parliament of the State ) Egmore forms its own constituency ( Egmore constituency ). To this belong the neighborhoods ( wards ) 58, 61, 77-78, 104 and 107

History

Egmore existed before the founding of Chennai. Two inscriptions in the Parthasarathy Temple, one was from 1309 and one from the 16th century mention a village called Ezhumur, the chief town of a county. The name changed later in Ezhumbur and was anglicised during the colonial period in Egmore.

After the British East India Company had founded in 1640 the Fort St. George, which was to become the nucleus of the city of Madras (Chennai ), she acquired in 1694 the nearby village Egmore. But Egmore retained a rural character and long experienced in the second half of the 19th century, greater growth. From this period a number of colonial institutions such as the Government Museum or the Connemara Public Library. With the completion of the station Egmore in 1908, the district became an important transportation hub.

Attractions

In Egmore is a series of representative buildings from the British colonial period. At the site in the Pantheon Road numerous art galleries and museums are located today. Founded in 1857, The Government Museum has departments of anthropology, archeology, botany, geology, numismatics, sculpture and zoology. It shows pieces from the South Indian history from the Indus Valley Civilization, from the Buddhist center at Amaravati from the second century, carvings of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain deities, South Indian musical instruments, jewelry and bronze Götterbildnisse from the Pallava and Chola period between the ninth and 12th centuries. The National Art Gallery is housed in a magnificent pink sandstone building in Jaipuri - Jaina - style and presents Indian paintings, including the Rajput and Mughal schools. Furthermore, can be found in Pantheonkomplex the Contemporary Art Gallery, which was built in 1896 Connemara Library, the round red Museum Theatre and the Children 's Museum.

One of Britain's most important churches in Chennai, St. Andrew 's Church, known as The Kirk, is located in Egmore. It was built in 1821 as a Church of Scotland congregation in Madras. The St. Andrew 's Church represents the Georgian classicism and the London Church of St. Martin-in -the-Fields modeled. To date, it is used by a Presbyterian congregation.

Traffic

Egmore Chennai Egmore Station houses the, to Chennai Central is the second most important railway station of the city. Chennai Egmore is a through station. From here start the most long-distance trains that travel in a southerly direction through the other parts of Tamil Nadu or Kerala. Moreover Chennai Egmore is a stop of the southern line of Chennaier suburban railway. The station building, completed in 1908 is held in the Indo - sarrazenischen colonial style. Stick to the train station every day 25 mainline and 118 suburban trains every day haunt him 100,000 passengers (as of 2008 ).

The main street is the EVR Periyar Salai Egmores (formerly Poonamallee High Road ), the main arterial road to the west of Chennai. Many bus lines connect the city with other parts of Chennai Egmore.