Jaffna District
Jaffna
Maruthady

Nallur

Nallur is an affluent suburb in , . It is located 3 km south from Jaffna city centre. Nallur is most famous for , one of Sri Lanka's most sacred place of pilgrimage for Sri Lankan Hindus.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Town with 15,000 residents
  • Description: town in the district of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
  • Also known as: “Nallur, Jaffna”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nallur Kandaswamy temple and St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Hindu temple
Photo: Thivagaranp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil is a , located in Nallur, , Sri Lanka. The presiding deity is Murugan in the form of the divine spear vel in the sanctum, the primary shrine, and in other forms, namely, Shanmugar, Muthukumaraswami, Valli Kanthar with consorts Valli and Deivayanai, and Dandayuddhapani, sans consorts in secondary shrines in the temple.

Church
Photo: Ghostface Buddha, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St. Mary's Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jaffna located in Gurunagar, a suburb of in northern . The cathedral is also known locally as Periye Kovil.

Hospital
is a government hospital in , . It is the leading hospital in the and the only hospital in the province controlled by the central government in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ariyalai and Kokkuvil.

Town
Photo: உமாபதி, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb of the city of in northern . The suburb is divided into eight village officer divisions whose combined population was 10,750 at the 2012 census. is situated 2½ km southeast of Nallur.

Village
Kokuvil is a suburb in the northern city of . is situated 3 km north of Nallur.

Village
Photo: T.kiresan, Public domain.
is a town in the of Sri Lanka, about 5 miles north of the city of . It is located on the Jaffna-Kangesanthurai road. This road divides the town into two parts East and West . is situated 5 km north of Nallur.

Nallur

Latitude
9.67349° or 9° 40′ 25″ north
Longitude
80.02903° or 80° 1′ 45″ east
Population
15,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Open location code
6MX2M2FH+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2059494459
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1233838
Wiki­data ID
Q6960987
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Tamil—“Nallur” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Nallur”
  • Dutch: “Nallur”
  • French: “Nallur”
  • Irish: “Nallur”
  • Japanese: “ナルア”
  • Kannada: “ನಲ್ಲೂರು (ಶ್ರೀಲಂಕಾ)”
  • Kannada: “ನಲ್ಲೂರು”
  • Malayalam: “നല്ലൂർ, ജാഫ്ന”
  • Malayalam: “നല്ലൂർ, യാഴ്പ്പാണം”
  • Portuguese: “Nalur”
  • Slovenian: “Nalur”
  • Tamil: “நல்லூர் (யாழ்ப்பாணம்)”
  • Tamil: “நல்லூர்”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nallur”. Photo: Gane Kumaraswamy, CC BY-SA 2.0.