Tirupattur tourism places to visit | திருப்பத்தூர் சுற்றுலா தலங்கள் | തിരുപ്പത്തൂർ സന്ദർശിക്കേണ്ട സ്ഥലങ്ങൾ | ತಿರುಪತ್ತೂರ್ ಪ್ರವಾಸೋದ್ಯಮವು ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಬೇಕಾದ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳು | తిరుపత్తూరు సందర్శనీయ ప్రదేశాలు
Tirupattur is a famous destination for trade and commerce. The commodities traded from here include dhals, jaggery, chillies, cotton and other agro products. The town is known for an abundance of sandalwood in the surrounding hills.Ambur is an industrial centre for leather articles such as shoes and garments for export.
Tirupattur is home to the
1.Jalagamparai Waterfalls
2.Yelagiri Hills
3.Kavalur – Solar Observatory
4.Punganur Lake
5.Christukula ashram
Jalagamparai Waterfalls is flowing down from a height of 15 meters, the place is popular among lovebirds. The Attaru river flows through Yelagiri and the breaks into a beautiful fall from the mountain rocks.Bathing in this waterfall cures diseases because it passes through various herbal plants in the hills. The falls has a trek route and also a motorable road. The falls can be reached after 1.5 hour trek of 6 km from Nilavoor (6 kms from Yelagiri Punganoor Lake). It is little tough trek, but the view of the valley from the falls is truly amazing.
Yelagiri Hills is one of the hill stations of Tamil Nadu. Yelagiri hill top can be reached by a winding ghat road, that has 14 hairpin bends. The view of the slop of the mountain and the green forest covering as a carpet of the hill. Punganur Lake which is an artificial lake made in an are of 56.706 square metres. Other attractions are a children’s park. Near the Punganoor Lake, a Herbal Farm, is maintained by the forest Department with rare herbals used in the Siddha And Ayurvedic medical treatments.
The Vainu Bappu Observatory(VBO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. It is located at Kavalur in the Javadi Hills, near Vaniyambadi in Tirupathur district.The Kavalur Observatory is located in a 100 acre forest land. The observatory houses a number of optical telescopes, including currently India's largest optical telescope the 2.3m Vainu Bappu telescope, 1.3 meter J.C Bhattacharya telescope, 1m Carl Zeiss Telescope and many other smaller ones. Apart from the Telescopes, there is also a Fabry-Perot Interferometer which is being used to study airglow emissions from the Earth's thermosphere. The observatory is situated at an altitude of 725m.
Punganur Lake is an artificial lake, excavated in an area of 57 sq meters. The Elagiri Hills Development and Tourism Promotion Society runs the Boat Club, with pedaling and rowing boats. There is a newly laid flori cultural garden with a pathway along the bund with a panoramic view of the lake on one side and the garden on the other. A connecting bridge leads the pathway around the lake. The pathway around the lake is particularly good for birding. There is also a small watch tower constructed next to a tree which can be climbed. Even though the water is not clear, the lake is pretty clean.
Christukula ashram is a rchurch which looks like a dravidian temple. This church constructed by the Christukula Ashram, Tirupattur, North Arcot, Tamil Nadu.Set up under the influence of Sadhu Sunder Singh, a missionary from Shimla/Subathu, who wore saffron robes while doing his mission work. Sunder Singh was born a Sikh at a village in Ludhiana district. He converted to Christianity while a teenager. He spent a major portion of his life giving shelter to lepers and travelling far and wide urging people to convert to Christianity. He died in 1929. These missionaries were part of a larger movement, the Christian Ashram movement which married vedantic teachings with those of Christianity and took on the form of Hindu religious practices, making them practically indistinguishable from local Hinduism while owing ultimate allegiance to Christianity. The Christukula Ashram movement was started by two medical missionaries, Ernest Forrester Paton (1891–1970) and S Jesudasan. Paton was a Scot who came to India under the aegis fo the Scottish United Free Church medical mission. He adopted the Tamil name Chinnannan. Along with a fellow missionary and Tamil convert S Jesudasan he founded the Christukula Ashram, the first Protestant Christian Ashram in India in 1920 having taken inspiration from the missionary from Punjab who preferred to use the title 'Sadhu' for himself, Sadhu Sunder Singh.
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