Alapakkam

Alapakkam
Alapakkam
neighbourhood
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	Coordinates: 13°02′56″N 80°10′02″E / 13.0490°N 80.1673°E
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District	Chennai
Maduravoyal Taluk	Chennai
Languages
• Official	Tamil
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	600 116
Vehicle registration	TN-10

Alapakkam is a neighbourhood in western Chennai. It belongs to Central Chennai Revenue Division of Chennai district. It is surrounded by Porur, Valasaravakkam and Maduravoyal. It is part of Chennai corporation under zone 11. Entry in to Alapakkam is through two main roads, that is, Arcot Road and Poovirundhavalli High Road. Alapakkam belongs to Sriperumbudur Lok Sabha contituency and Maduravoyal assembly constituency.

Areas in Alapakkam:

Perumal Koil Street
Metro Nagar
Ayyavu Naicker Street
Govindappa Naicker Street
Ponniyamman Kovil Street
Karpaga Vinayagar Colony
Rajiv Gandhi Nagar
Krishna Nagar
Ashtalakshmi Nagar
Sundar Nagar
Ganapathy Nagar

Alapakkam has many Schools and Educational institutions.

Government Higher secondary school
Chennai Corporation school
Velammal Vidyalaya School
Sree Adithya Matriculation School
Meenakshi Dental College
Seven Hills Polytechnic
Muthukumaran Engineering college
Acharya Shiksha Mandir (Ashtalakshmi Nagar)
Devi Academy School

Mini Bus routes

S25 - Maduravoyal to Valasaravakkam [Route: Maduravoyal Earikarai-Aalapakkam Main Road-Meenakshi Dental College-Govt High School-Alapakkam-Arcot Road]

S38 - CMBT Metro to Valasaravakkam [Route: via Ashtalakshmi Nagar, MGR Road]

M49G - Thiruverkadu to T Nagar.

Temples

Nataraja temple

Nataraja Temple is one of the most famous temple in this area. It is one of the two Nataraja temple in Chennai where Nataraja is worshiped as main deity. Here Maragatha Lingam poojai is daily done two times. People around this area call this temple as Chennaiyil Chidambaram or Chennaiyil Thillai.

Valliserapaleeshwarar Temple

Valliserapaleeshwarar Temple is a native temple of Alappakkam. One of the oldest temple in the region, this temple is related with Vali in Ramayanam. It is said that Vali got the secret powers from Lord Shiva by doing penance here. The deity here is called as Vali-sera-paleeshwarar, which over time changed to Valliserapaleeshwarar.

Public utilities

Tasildar Office & E-Seva Maiyam located in Alapakkam behind Perumal koil Street.

Post Office for Alapakkam is located at Sakthi Nagar, Porur (Off Mount Poovirundhavalli Road).

Corporation Office is Zone located at Arcot Road.

Chennai Metro water and Sewerage Board area office is located at No.8A, Gangai Amman Koil Street, Alapakkam

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