Kalviyankadu
Kalviyankadu is a village in Valikamam East Divisional Secretariat, Jaffna District, Northern Province. Kalviyankadu is situated nearby to the town Nallur, as well as near the suburb Thirunelvely.Places of Interest
Highlights include Nallur Kandaswamy temple and St. Mary’s Cathedral.
Nallur Kandaswamy temple
Hindu temple
Photo: Thivagaranp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil is a Hindu temple, located in Nallur, Northern Province, 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.
St. Mary’s Cathedral
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 Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The cathedral is also known locally as Periye Kovil.
Jaffna Teaching Hospital
Hospital
Jaffna Teaching Hospital is a government hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is the leading hospital in the Northern Province and the only hospital in the province controlled by the central government in Colombo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jaffna and Nallur.
Jaffna
Photo: Gane Kumaraswamy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Jaffna District is the northernmost region of Sri Lanka, and one of the oldest inhabited places on the island. It is populated mainly by Tamil speaking people.
Nallur
Town
Nallur is an affluent suburb in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is located 3 km south from Jaffna city centre. Nallur is most famous for Nallur Kandaswamy temple, one of Sri Lanka's most sacred place of pilgrimage for Sri Lankan Hindus.
Ariyalai
Town
Photo: உமாபதி, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ariyalai is a suburb of the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The suburb is divided into eight village officer divisions whose combined population was 10,750 at the 2012 census.
Kalviyankadu
- Type: Village with 5,000 residents
- Category: locality
- Location: Valikamam East Divisional Secretariat, Jaffna District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
9.6813° or 9° 40′ 53″ northLongitude
80.0386° or 80° 2′ 19″ eastPopulation
5,000Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
6MX2M2JQ+GFOpenStreetMap ID
node 2152832446OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7324181
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