Maraimalai Adigal Bridge, Marmalong Bridge, Teacher's Training College, Panagal Maligai, Mehar Baba Ashram Saidapet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

….. a continuation post to Little Mount Shrine of our Lady of Health, Church.

03^rd December 2016.

MARAIMALAI ADIGAL BRIDGE - MARMALONG BRIDGE

We had visited the bridge earlier, as a part of the Adyar river walk. This bridge was constructed on the river Adyar bridging Mambalam with the Guindy Raj Bhavan area. Originally there was an old stone bridge and later an Armenian Merchant called Coja Petrvs Uscan, re-constructed the bridge at a cost of 30000 pagodas also he donated 1500 pagodas towards upkeep. For the full details please visit my post on Marmalong Bridge in my blog. Also for further reading please refer to my Facebook post with comments.

LOCATION OF THE BRIDGE:    CLICK HERE 

 The small obelisk-like pillar between the new CMRL pillars must be the remains of the old bridge constructed by Coja Petrvs Uscan

TEACHERS TRAINING COLLEGE

The teachers training college, the Second of its kind in India when started in the year 1856 as a school at Vepery under the guidance of Alexander Arbuthnot. Then it was shifted to its present location in Todhunter Nagar in the year 1888, as a College on the banks of river Adyar.  This College produced two eminent personalities who later became presidents of India namely  Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Mr R. Venkatraman. The silver-tongued Mr Srinivasa Sastri also from this college, once corrected the pronunciation of his British principal. Now the structure was taken over by The Chennai metro rail and the same is in a state of neglect & dilapidated condition. 

LOCATION OF TEACHERS TRAINING COLLEGE:    CLICK HERE

Karine Hrt also explained the first agricultural college was established in the year 1868, in an area of 30 acres where the cosmopolitan golf course now functions.  The college had done the experiments of growing wheat., cotton. The college was moved to Coimbatore later. Experiments also carried out the coloring dyes from the cactus bugs for the cloths used by the British army. For further details please refer to my Facebook page for the post with comments. 

PANAGAL MALIGAI.

This building can be viewed from Marmalong Bridge  (Saidapet Bridge). The Headquarters of Chengalpattu District was functioning in the same place. This building was named after Raja of Panagal, a Zamindar of Kalahasti, leader of the Justice party, and the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency from 1921 to 1926. For further reading  please refer to Wikipedia about Raja_of_Panagal  

LOCATION OF THE PANAGAL MALIGAI:    CLICK HERE

MEHAR BABA ASHRAM

Mahar Bhavan and Mehar Baba Ashram are opposite each other on Brahmin Street in west Saidapet near the Karaneeswarar market Sub Way. His original name was Merwan Sheriar Irani and he was born in 1894 in Pune  India to Irani Zoroastrian parents (Parsi parents ). At the age of 19, he began a seven-year spiritual transformation. During this time he contacted five spiritual masters before beginning his own mission and gathering his own disciples in early 1922, at the age of 27. He was brought to Madras Madras by Mr Sampath Iyengar, A Judge of the Andhra District of then Madras Presidency. Meher Baba practiced silence in his life and communicated through gestures or writing on boards. He visited Madras three times during his lifetime. For further reading please visit the Wikipedia page under Meher_Baba

LOCATION OF THE MEHAR BABA ASHRAM:    CLICK HERE

….… to be continued ( VADA THIRUNARAIYUR SHIVA TEMPLE )