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The Home was started on 17 February 1905 by Sri C.Ramasami Ayyangar with the blessings of Swami Ramakrishnananda, a direct disciple of Ramakrishna with 7 orphan boys. The Home began operating out of a small building in Mylapore, given free of rent by Dr. M.C.Nanjunda Rao who was a disciple of Vivekananda.
The Portuguese explorers came to Mylapore in 1500, they saw the tomb of St.Thomas as a small abandoned structure and they decided to build a church in that same place. In 1522 they started building the church under orders of King John III of Portugal and opened it in 1523. They named the east coast of Mylapore as Santhome where the church is ...
Mylapore is regarded by many as the cultural hub of the city. Mylapore is the home of music sabhas (cultural organizations) and musicians. December is often set aside as the Music Season when regular and continuous kutcheris are organized by the Sabhas in Mylapore. There are performances by Carnatic Music vocalists and artists during this period.
Sri Ramakrishna Math Vivekananda Centenary Girls Higher Secondary School with 670 students. [10] Sri Ramakrishna Math National School Chennai – 79 with 520 students. [11] A public library with 32,000 books and 300 periodicals. [12] A Book bank providing academic books for 300 engineering students.
Known as the Kapaleeshwarar Tank or the Mylapore Tank, it is one of the oldest and well-maintained theppakulams in the city, measuring about 190 m in length and 143 m in breadth. [14] The tank has a storage capacity of 119,000 cubic metre and has water all through the year. [ 14 ]
Antonio Gouvea states in his 16th-century work Jornada that the old churches of Saint Thomas Christians were full of crosses of the type discovered at S. Thome (Mylapore). [11] He also states that veneration of the cross is an old custom in Malabar. Jornada is the oldest known written document which calls the cross cross from (of) Sam Thome ...
Sir P.S. Sivaswami Ayyar is a great legend in the sphere of education; he gave all that he had to promote, sustain and perpetuate a school for boys at Tirukkattupalli, Thanjavur, and a school for girls at Mylapore- Lady Sivaswami Ayyar Girls' Higher Secondary School.
It is located in Mylapore, in Chennai, the capital of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The temple has a rectangular plan surrounded by 10 ft (3.0 m) high walls, with a 5-tier gopuram, the gateway tower. The presiding deity is housed in the sanctum and is an image made of granite. The deity is seen in standing posture.