Overview

The name Tirupattur means a group of ten villages/small towns and ten temples. There exists a village called Aathiyur (Aathi means Begin) in the southern fringes of the Town and Kodiyur (Kodi means End) in the northern fringes of the town. It is surrounded by several of these villages, making Tirupattur a Taluk.It has Old Shiva, Vishnu temples and Tanks (Big Tank & Small Tank) built during the Hoysala Dynasty. It is well connected by road and rail to other important cities of Tamil Nadu such as Thiruvannamalai, Chennai, Salem, Coimbatore and Vellore and to Bangalore in Karnataka. This town is also famous in Islamic religious circles as many great saints "Awliyas" had made it their home town. Some of them are buried at various places in the town, including Hazrat Syed Sha Mohammed alias Syed Khawja Meeran Hussaini Jaffari, Hazrat Syed Sha ameenuddin Hussaini Chisty ur Kahdri (who is better known as Munshi Hazrat); he was the last among a series of saints who have lived and have been buried at Tirupattur. more...

History

Tirupattur is called as the "Sandal City", Even a rough estimation cannot easily be established on the origin of Tirupattur town, owing to its antiquity. Through, the inscriptions, so far surveyed by Archaeological Survey of India in Tirupattur, it is estimated that this town is more than 1600 years old. During the regimes of various rulers like Cholas, VijayaNagara Dynasty, Hoysalas the town had been referred to, by the following names: Sri Mathava Chaturvedi Mangalam,Veera Narayana Chaturvedi Mangalam, Tiruperur and Brahmapuram (Brahmeeswaram). The present name "Tirupattur" might have got derived from "Tiruperur". Erstwhile "Tiruperur" or "Sri Madhava Chaturvedi Mangalam" was in "Eyyil Nadu", subdivision of "Nigarili Chola Mandalam", division of "Chola Empire".more...

Education

Tirupattur is place for education. Number of education institutions offers courses and trainings. One of them is Sacred Heart College (SHC). It offers various courses from UG to Ph.D more...

Economy

According to 2011 census, Tirupattur had a population of 64,125 with a sex-ratio of 1,010 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929. A total of 7,255 were under the age of six, constituting 3,717 males and 3,538 females. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounted for 18.33% and .43% of the population respectively. The average literacy of the town was 76.22%, compared to the national average of 72.99%. The town had a total of 14084 households. There were a total of 22,895 workers, comprising 240 cultivators, 161 main agricultural labourers, 1,145 in house hold industries, 18,782 other workers, 2,567 marginal workers, 38 marginal cultivators, 27 marginal agricultural labourers, 246 marginal workers in household industries and 2,256 other marginal workers. As per the religious census of 2011, Tirupattur (M) had 67.73% Hindus, 28.49% Muslims, 3.02% Christians, 0.01% Sikhs, 0.01% Buddhists, 0.47% Jains, 0.26% following other religions and 0.0% following no religion or did not indicate any religious preference.more...

About Tirupattur Info

Tirupattur Info is a project created by Vithagan Technologies to reach in and around events and information of Tirupattur to the world with various heads like Temples, Educational Institutions, Business Information etc. more...