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Kundrathur

Kundrathur is a town located in the Chennai Metropolitan Area and the headquarters of Kundrathur taluk in Kanchipuram District.

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Kundrathur is a town located in the Chennai Metropolitan Area and the headquarters of Kundrathur taluk in Kanchipuram District. It is the birthplace of Sekkizhar, a well-known poet-saint who authored the Periyapuranam.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kundrathur

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Chembarambakkam Lake

    Chembarambakkam Lake is located in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu, India, about 25 km from Chennai. It is the biggest of the two important rain-fed reservoirs, the other one being the Puzhal Lake, that supply drinking water to Chennai city.

    4.2 km · lake in Kancheepuram District, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kamakshi Amman Temple, Mangadu

    The Mangadu Kamakshi Amman Temple is a famous pilgrim destination Hindu temple dedicated to Goddess Parvathi, located in Mangadu, a suburb of Chennai, India. The term Mangadu means "Mango Forests or Mango Groves" and as the term implies this must have been a thickly wooded Mango groove in the past.

    3.9 km · temple in India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kovur Sundareswarar Temple

    Sundareswarar Temple at Kovur, a suburb of Chennai, India is a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Shiva. Constructed in about 965 CE, the presiding deity of the temple is Sundareswarar, a form of Shiva and the presiding goddess is Soundarambikai.

    3.1 km · shiva temple in Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Varadaraja Perumal Temple, Poonamallee

    The Varadaraja Perumal Temple is a Hindu temple located in the town of Poonamallee, a suburb of Chennai, India. Constructed in remote antiquity, the temple is dedicated to Vishnu and his consort, Pushpavalli Thayar.

    6 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    2014 Chennai Building Collapse

    On 28 June 2014, an eleven-storey apartment block collapsed while under construction at Moulivakkam in the suburb of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The cause was determined to be a lightning strike to exposed metal at the top, which was conducted through the building and to ground via reinforcement bars embedded in the concrete, which led to failure of support columns and subsequent collapse of the structure.

    5.8 km · Incident of building collapse · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Vaikunta Perumal Mangadu

    Sri Vaikunta Perumal temple is a Vishnu temple situated about half a kilometer from the Kamakshi Temple Mangadu. It is administered by a trustee and the HR & CE departments of the Government of Tamil Nadu.

    4.1 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ranganatha Temple, Thiruneermalai

    The Thiruneermalai temple complex consists of two temples, the Ranganatha Temple and the Thiruneermalai Neervanna Perumal Temple. Both are Hindu temples in Thiruneermalai, a suburb of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

    4.2 km · Hindu temple in Chennai · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Velleswarar Temple, Mangadu

    Velleeswarar Temple is a Shiva temple located in Mangadu, a suburb of Chennai, India. This is a mid-size temple spread over 2 acres and is among the 3 principal temples in Mangadu – the other 2 being the Sri Kamakshi Amman Temple and Sri Vaikunda Perumal Temple.

    3.7 km · Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kundrathur

Airports
Chennai (MAA), 8 km · Tirupati (TIR), 93 km · Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 260 km
Stations
Poonamallee Bypass metro station, 5.8 km · Poonamallee Government Hospital metro station, 5.9 km
  • Tirupati → Kundrathur
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · ₹900–1,130
  • Bengaluru → Kundrathur
    269 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · ₹1,960–2,450
  • Tiruchirappalli → Kundrathur
    285 km · quickest by road, 4h 55m · ₹1,980–2,480
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kundrathur. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    440 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    443 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

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  4. 04
    NelliyampathyIN

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  5. 05
    HampiIN

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Around it

Next door to Kundrathur

Kundrathur is 13 km from Avadi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Thiruneermalaisuburb in Kanchipuram district5 km
  • AnakaputhurVillage in Chengalpattu District, Tamil Nadu, India3.6 km
  • MangaduVillage in Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India4.9 km
  • PolichalurVillage in Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India4.9 km
  • PammalVillage in Chengalpattu District, Tamil Nadu, India4.8 km
  • SikkarayapuramVillage in Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu, India2.5 km