Egmore
Egmore [ ˈeɡmoːr ] or Ezhumbur ( Tamil : எழும்பூர் Eḻumpūr [ ˈjeɻɯmbuːr ]) 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 Chennai Egmore train station, is home to a number of buildings from the British colonial era, such 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 district are not precisely defined, but Egmore can be demarcated from the districts of Chetput in the west, Kilpauk in the northwest and Purasawalkam in the north. To the south, the Cooum separates Egmore from Chintadripet , Thousand Lights and Nungambakkam .
Administratively, the Egmore area is part of the Royapuram zone . In the election to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (the parliament of the state) Egmore forms its own constituency ( Egmore constituency ). This includes the districts ( wards ) 58, 61, 77–78, 104 and 107.
history
Egmore existed before Chennai was founded. Two inscriptions in the Parthasarathy Temple , one from 1309 and one from the 16th century, mention a village called Ezhumur , which was the capital of an administrative district. The name later changed to Ezhumbur and was Anglicized in Egmore during the colonial period .
After the British East India Company had founded Fort St. George in 1640 , which was to become the nucleus of the city of Madras (Chennai), it also acquired the nearby village of Egmore in 1694. Egmore retained a rural character for a long time and only experienced greater growth in the second half of the 19th century. A number of colonial institutions such as the Government Museum or the Connemara Public Library date from this period. With the completion of the Egmore train station in 1908, the district became an important transport hub.
Attractions
In Egmore there are a number of representative buildings from the British colonial era. Numerous art galleries and museums are now located on the site in Pantheon Road. The Government Museum , founded in 1857, has departments for anthropology, archeology, botany, geology, numismatics, sculpture, and zoology. It shows pieces from the South Indian prehistory, from the Indus culture , from the Buddhist center in Amaravati from the second century, carvings of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain gods, South Indian musical instruments, jewelry and bronze images of gods from the Pallava and Chola periods between the ninth and 12th centuries. The National Art Gallery resides in a magnificent pink sandstone building in the Jaipuri-Jaina style and presents Indian painting including the Rajput and Mughal schools. The Pantheon complex also houses the Contemporary Art Gallery , the Connemara Library built in 1896 , the round red Museum Theater and the Children's Museum .
One of the most important British churches in Chennai, St. Andrew's Church , called The Kirk , is located in Egmore. It was built in 1821 as the Church of the Scottish Community in Madras. St. Andrew's Church represents Georgian classicism and is modeled on the London Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields . It is still used by a Presbyterian community today.
traffic
Egmore is home to Chennai Egmore Railway Station , the second most important railway station in the city after Chennai Central . Chennai Egmore is a through station . Most of the long-distance trains that run south to the rest of Tamil Nadu or Kerala start from here . Chennai Egmore is also a stop on the southern line of the Chennaier suburban railway . The station building, completed in 1908, is in the Indo-Sarrazen colonial style. 25 long-distance and 118 suburban trains stop at the station every day, with 100,000 passengers every day (as of 2008).
Egmores 'main street is EVR Periyar Salai (formerly Poonamallee High Road ), Chennais' main arterial road to the west. Numerous city bus routes connect Egmore with other parts of Chennais.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of neighborhoods on the Chennai (Tamil) city website. (PDF; 420 kB)
- ↑ The Hindu, June 11, 2008: "From Ezhumur to Egmore".
- ^ The Hindu, June 11, 2008: "Red-letter day for Southern Railway".
