Triplicane

Triplicane or Tiruvallikeni (Tamil: திருவல்லிகேணி Tiruvallikēṇi [ t̪iɾɯʋal ː ː ike ɳi ]; well Thiruvallikeni ) is a district of Chennai (Madras ), the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Triplicane is home to the largest Muslim district of Chennai and the Vishnu Parthasarathy Temple.

Location and extent

Triplicane is located in central Chennai, close to the coast of the Gulf of Bengal. The boundaries of the neighborhood are not exactly defined, Triplicane can be distinguished in the north but to the districts in the south Mylapore, Royapettah in the west and Chepauk. To the east is the city beach Marina Beach.

Administratively, the territory of Triplicane is in Zone Teynampet. In the election for Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly ( the parliament of the state ) forms Triplicane since 2011 together with the neighboring districts and Chintadripet Chepauk Chepauk - Triplicane constituency ( Chepauk - Triplicane constituency ). To this belong the neighborhoods ( wards ) 62-63, 114-116 and 119-120. Previously Triplicane had formed its own constituency.

History

The story goes much further back than Triplicanes the Chennai, founded in the 17th century as a British colony. The Parthasarathy Temple Triplicane of goes back to the time of the Pallava rulers, who ruled from the 6th to 9th centuries of Kanchipuram from over the northern part of present-day Tamil Nadu. In 7/8 Century, sing three of the Alvars ( Vaishnava poet saints) in their devotional hymns the temple of Triplicane. The name Triplicane is an anglicized form of Tiruvallikeni, which means as much as "holy ( Tiru ) Water Lily Pond ( alli - keni ) " in Tamil.

After the British East India Company had founded in 1639 the Fort St. George, in 1659 it acquired the nearby village of Triplicane. The first Muslims had already settled in the 17th century during the occupation by the Sultanate of Golconda in Triplicane. A larger Muslim community emerged in Triplicane after the Muslim dynasty of the Nawabs of Arcot 1768 their residence relocated to the nearby Chepauk. The Nawabs who had controlled in the 18th century a large part of North Tamil Nadu, came gradually into a dependent relationship with the British East India Company. In 1801 they had their territory ceded to the British and were reduced to the status of pure Titularherrscher without political power. When the last Nawab of Arcot in 1855 without male heirs died, fell their possessions according to the Doctrine of lapse to the British. However, a relative of the Nawabs received in 1867 by the British, the title " Prince of Arcot " ( Prince of Arcot ) and a number of privileges granted. The Prince of Arcot family lives today in Triplicane.

Triplicane long kept its village character. Only in the 20th century it was due to the expansion of Chennai to a densely populated district.

Attractions

In the south Triplicanes is the most important Vaishnavite shrine of Chennai, the Parthasarathy Temple. It is dedicated to Lord Krishna as Parthasarathy ( " Partha's charioteer ', ie Arjuna ). In this form of Krishna, an avatar of Lord Vishnu appears in the Mahabharata epic. Apart from the main shrine dedicated to Krishna, the temple houses shrines for Krishna's consort Rukmini side and other avatars of Vishnu, especially Rama and Narasimha. Built in the South Indian Dravidian style Parthasarathy Temple dates back to the time of the Pallava in the 8th century and was rebuilt several times in the later centuries and expanded. In its present form the temple has a 120 × 42 -foot rectangular floor plan. In the West and East ever rises a gopuram ( gate-tower ), outside the main entrance in the east portico ( mandapa ) is grown also. East of the temple is a large temple pond. The neighborhood surrounding the Parthasarathy Temple is still home to traditionally of Vaishnavite Brahmins from the caste of Iyengar.

The northern part Triplicanes other hand, is strongly influenced by Muslim. On the road Quaide Milleth Salai (formerly Triplicane High Road ) is the Wallajah Mosque or " Great Mosque " (Big Mosque ), the main Sunni mosque Chennai. It was built in 1795 under the Nawab of Arcot Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah and is maintained until today by the Wallajah Dynasty. The mosque was built of gray granite has two minarets. It is surrounded by extensive open space that accommodates large religious and cultural gatherings. In addition to the mosque are the tombs of Sufi saint Maulana Abdul Ali Bahrul Uloom and the Nawabs of Arcot.

Amir Mahal is located on the border between Triplicane and the neighboring district of Royapettah. The value held in the Indo-Saracenic colonial style building was originally built in 1798 by the British East India Company as an administrative building. After the Nawabs of Arcot were sold in 1855 and had to give up their previous Chepauk Palace, the British built as compensation to Amir Mahal, a palace for him in 1876, leaving the ruling family as a new residence. To date, he is in possession of Wallajah family.

Traffic

Triplicane is connected by numerous city bus lines with the other parts of the city of Chennai. Next to it is in Triplicane the Thiruvallikeni station of the elevated railway Mass Rapid Transit System ( MRTS ).