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Chennai historian S. Muthiah delivering a lecture on The Story of Photography in Madras at the Press Institute of India as a part of Madras Day 2015 celebrations. Madras Day is a festival organised to commemorate the founding of the city of Madras in Tamil Nadu, India.
The 2011 census data for the urban agglomeration is available and has been provided. [ 7 ] Chennai (/ ˈtʃɛnaɪ / ⓘ; Tamil: [ˈt͡ɕenːaɪ̯], ISO: Ceṉṉai), formerly known as Madras, [ b ] is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India. It is the state's primate city and is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay ...
History of Chennai. Chennai, formerly known as Madras, is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu and is India 's fifth largest city. [1] It is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. With an estimated population of 12.05 million (2024), the 383-year-old city is the 31st largest metropolitan area in the world.
Marina Beach, Chennai. Coordinates. 13°03′51″N 80°17′01″E / 13.064118°N 80.283714°E / 13.064118; 80.283714. The Triumph of Labour, also known as the Labour statue, is a statue at the Marina Beach, Chennai, India. Erected at the northern end of the beach at the Anna Square opposite University of Madras, it is an important ...
Madras State was renamed Tamil Nadu, meaning Tamil country. 1972: Snake Park is inaugurated. [78] Madras Metropolitan Development Authority is formed. 1973: Madras Corporation is superseded. 1974: Rajaji Mandapam is built. Madras Television Centre is founded. Taj Coromandel hotel, the first luxury hotel in Chennai, is opened (14 April). [79]
Diocese of Madras. Clergy. Bishop (s) George Stephen Jayaraj. C.S.I. St. Mary's Church is the Anglican church located at Fort St George in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It lies East of Suez and also the oldest British building in India. [ 1 ] The church is popularly known as 'Westminster Abbey of the East'.
M.G.R. and Amma Memorial, officially Bharat Ratna Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G.R. and Puratchi Thalaivi Amma Selvi J. Jayalalithaa Memorial, is a memorial complex dedicated to the former chief ministers of Tamil Nadu M. G. Ramachandran (M.G.R.) and J. Jayalalithaa (Amma), where a black marble platform was raised on the spot of M.G.R.'s cremation on 25 December 1987, and on the spot of ...
The Government Museum, Chennai, or the Madras Museum, is a museum of human history and culture located in the Government Museum Complex in the neighbourhood of Egmore in Chennai, India. Started in 1851, it is the second oldest museum in India after the Indian Museum in Kolkata. It is particularly rich in archaeological and numismatic ...