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The site of the mosque was previously occupied by an assembly hall. There was a tradition of lighting thousand oil lamps to illuminate the assembly hall. The mosque thus gets its name from this tradition. [4] The chief Shia Qazi of Chennai functions from the mosque, and the post has been continuously held by the same family. [3]: 128
Thousand Lights is an underground metro station on the North-South Corridor of the Blue Line of Chennai Metro in Chennai, India. This station serves the neighbourhoods of Royapettah, Greams Road, and Gopalapuram. The station is named so because of the presence of the Thousand Lights Mosque in the vicinity. The station was opened for public on ...
Thousand Lights is a constituency of the legislative assembly of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Its State Assembly Constituency number is 20. It forms a part of the Chennai Central Lok Sabha constituency for national elections to the Parliament of India. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu.
South and East Chennai 12.9386 80.2377 Thousand Lights South and East Chennai 13.0617 80.2544 Tiruvottiyur North Chennai 13.1643 80.3001 Tondiarpet North Chennai 13.1261 80.288 Triplicane South and East Chennai 13.0588 80.2756 Trisulam (Chennai International Airport) South and East Chennai 12.9695 80.1704 Vadapalani West Chennai 13.05 80.2121
The Chennai Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Chennai and its suburbs. Phase I of the project consisted of two corridors covering a length of 54.15 kilometres (33.65 mi). [ 1 ] The elevated section of the project began operations in June 2015, with the entire elevated stretch operational as of October 2016. [ 2 ]
Chennai Central South Line, Chennai Suburban West Line, Chennai Suburban (Moore Market) Chennai MRTS 14 Government Estate: அரசினர் தோட்டம் 15 LIC: எல்.ஐ.சி 16 Thousand Lights: ஆயிரம் விளக்கு Purple Line: 17 AG – DMS: ஏ.ஜி.–டி.எம்.எஸ். 25 May 2018
Thousand Lights Mosque, a multi-domed mosque opened in 1810 and spread over an area of 3 acres, it is one of the largest mosques in India and is situated on Anna Salai Road. It is said that 1000 lights needed to be lit in order to illuminate the assembly hall and hence it was named Thousand Lights Mosque.
Ezhilan was born to parents with strong Dravidian ideologies, Professor Dr. M. Naganathan and Professor Dr. Santhi Naganathan. Professor M. Naganathan was a close associate of Ex-Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M Karunanidhi for over 40 years and served as the Vice-Chairman of Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission from 2006-2011. [5]