Annanur

Annanur
—  town  —
Annanur Location of Annanur in Tamil Nadu and India
Coordinates	13°6′6″N 80°7′42″E
Country	India
State	Tamil Nadu
District(s)	Thiruvallur
Nearest city	Chennai
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Codes • Pincode • 109 • Telephone • +044 • Vehicle • TN 20 & TN 22

Annanur (Tamil: அன்னனூர்) is a suburb of Chennai located near Avadi. It is located about 25 km from the heart of the city.

Demographics

The majority of Annanur residents are railway employees, government and public servants and the traditional Annanur villagers. Individual plot owners out number than flat owners. Flat system has recently started to sell its business.^{[citation needed]}

Transportation

Trains are convenient for commuters than bus.^{[citation needed]} Annanur is served by the Annanur railway station on the Chennai suburban railway, which provides train service to Chennai.

Education

St. Peter's Engineering College is located near the Annanur railway station. It is approximately 1.5 km from the Annanur railway station and is also well connected to Avadi and Ambattur by road.

Temples

Nearby is the Vaishnavi Temple next to Vaishnodevi. Famous in the season of Navratri, the famous Shiva Temple is the oldest of chola temples. In ancient times, two Kurumbars named Vanan and Onan. King Thondaiman who was the emperor there tried to end the atrocities by waging a war against them. En route to the war-field, his elephant's leg was surrounded by mullai creepers. The king, while cutting those climbers,found blood oozing out of it and later found that it was the Siva linga from which the blood was oozing. The king was deeply worried; but, according to the Temple History, the Lord appeared before him and pacified the king saying, 'In spite of the blood I am Pure' -- hence the name Masilamani. The king duly defeated the kurumbas and brought with him the two white-erukku pillars from their palace and used them while building the temple for Masilmaninathar.

It is believed that the Lord supported him in destroying the Kurumbas by sending the Nandi. The unique feature of the temple is the Nandi facing eastward against Lord Shiva. Also this is one of the few temples where the positions of the Lords are interchanged. This is believed to be because of the urgency in providing darshan to the king.

The nearby Amman Temple located in Sri Sakthi Nagar, Sri Ramar Temple in Sivasakthi Nagar can be visited in all seasons and festival occasions. And buses are provided from Avadi depot to throughout Chennai and they stop at Vaishnavi nagar which is the extension and main area of annanur.

Development

The recent developments are the 60 feet road which stretches from Railway station to Murugappa Polytechnic and connects to NH-4. 40 feet road is still under the screening. The new Annanur is majorly divided in to Sivasakthi nagar subdivided in to various sectors (A-F) and Sri Sakthi Nagar is subdivided in to old Tamil literature street names.^{[citation needed]} chozhan nagar area which was very popular comparing to the other residing area in Annanur. The annanur has a railway quarters which counts to a considerable amount of population to this area.Also many students from various colleges stay here due to its proximity to both rail and road. In spite of such huge population,there a only very few hotels to cater the people.