St. Peter’s Church, Royapuram
St. Peter's Church is one of the oldest churches in Royapuram area of Chennai, the capital of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The original structure was built in Gothic architecture in 1829 by Gurukula Vamsha Varnakula Mudaliars, a group of boatmen who were serving the East India Company.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Church
- Description: church in Chennai, India
- Also known as: “St Peters Church”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Royapuram railway station and Washermanpet railway station.
Royapuram railway station
Railway station
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Royapuram railway station is a railway station at Royapuram, on the Chennai Beach–Walajapet section of the Chennai Suburban Railway network in Chennai, India. Royapuram railway station is situated 460 metres south of St. Peter’s Church, Royapuram.
Washermanpet railway station
Railway station
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Washermanpet railway station is one of the railway stations in Chennai, India. It is one of the stations of the Chennai Beach–Gummidipoondi and Chennai Beach-Arakkonam sections of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. Washermanpet railway station is situated 1½ km west of St. Peter’s Church, Royapuram.
Chennai Beach railway station
Railway station
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Chennai Beach is a railway terminus of the Southern Railway network in Parry's Corner, Chennai, India. Built on reclaimed land, the station serves the suburban services of the Chennai Suburban Railway and Mass Rapid Transit System and a few passenger trains. Chennai Beach railway station is situated 2 km south of St. Peter’s Church, Royapuram.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Royapuram and Vannarapettai.
Royapuram
Suburb
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Royapuram is a locality in the northern part of the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is best known for its beach, and for Royapuram Railway Station.
Vannarapettai
Suburb
Vannarapettai is a northern neighbourhood of Chennai, India. It is also known as Pazhaya Vannarapettai, sometimes shortened as Vannai. It is located north of Parrys Corner and adjacent to Royapuram.
Vallalar Nagar
Suburb
Vallalar Nagar is a neighbourhood in Chennai, India. Vallalar nagar is one of the important place in North Chennai. It is also called popularly as Mint, since the Madras treasury and mint was located here.
St. Peter’s Church, Royapuram
- Categories: place of worship and religion
- Location: Tiruvottiyur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
13.10831° or 13° 6′ 30″ northLongitude
80.29471° or 80° 17′ 41″ eastOpen location code
7M52475V+8VOpenStreetMap ID
way 217677421OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipWikidata ID
Q24939035
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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 “St. Peter’s Church, Royapuram”. Photo: Sudhamshu Hebbar, CC BY 2.0.