Gopalapuram
Gopalapuram is a prime residential locality in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is surrounded by Royapettah in the North and East, Mylapore in the South-East, Teynampet in the South and Thousand Lights in the West.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: human settlement in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Also known as: “Gopalapuram, Chennai”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Public School and Madras Music Academy.
National Public School
School
National Public School, in Gopalapuram, Chennai, India, is run by the Citizens Education Society. It was founded in 1970 by Dr.K.P. Gopalkrishna and is affiliated to the CBSE.
Madras Music Academy
Theater building
Photo: Jayaram36, Public domain.
Madras Music Academy is one of the earliest established music academies in South India. Before the concept of infrastructure was introduced to India in the early 1920s, it was a gathering for elite musicians simply called Music Academy It plays an important role in encouraging and promoting primarily the Carnatic Music Indian art form.
Thousand Lights Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Aleksandr Zykov, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Thousand Lights Mosque is a Shi'ite mosque in Anna Salai in Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the largest mosques in the country and is a revered place of worship and azadari for Shia Muslims.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Royapettah and Teynampet.
Teynampet
Suburb
Teynampet, also Teynampettai, is one of the busiest commercial localities in the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Part of the city's central business district, it is surrounded by Gopalapuram in the north, Mylapore in the east, Alwarpet in the south, Nandanam in the south-west and T.Nagar in the west.
Chennai
Chennai, formerly Madras, is the capital of the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. With a population of 8.6 million, Chennai's urbanised area is the most populous in Southern India and the fourth most populous in India.
Gopalapuram
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Tiruvottiyur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
13.04973° or 13° 2′ 59″ northLongitude
80.2582° or 80° 15′ 30″ eastElevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
7M5227X5+V7OpenStreetMap ID
node 243059957OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Tamil—“Gopalapuram” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “গোপালপুরম”
- Dutch: “Gopalapuram”
- Japanese: “ゴパラプラン”
- Malay: “Gopalapuram, Tamil Nadu”
- Malay: “Gopalapuram”
- Tamil: “கோபாலபுரம்”
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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 “Gopalapuram”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.