About the neighborhood
Neighborhood in Bengaluru, India
Malleshwaram is a northwest neighbourhood and one of the zones of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike in Bengaluru, India. It was planned in 1889 after the great plague of 1898, developed as a suburb in 1892 and handed over to the city municipality in 1895. As per the 1878 Survey of India map, the area came under the village of Ranganatha Palya and was later named after the Kadu Malleshwara Temple. The neighbourhood houses many offices, one them being World Trade Center Bengaluru. It has two shopping malls, Mantri Square and Orion Mall (at the two ends of the locality). As an education hub, it houses the education boards of the state KSEEB and PU boards, Mysore Education Society, Institute of Wood Science and Technology and Indian Institute of Science.
History
The earlier name of Malleshwaram was Mallapura as documented in the Ekoji Inscription of Malleshwaram dated to 1669 CE located in the precincts of the famous Kadu Malleshwara temple. It records the donation of the Maratha chief Ekoji, half brother of Shivaji who donated a village Medaraninganahalli for the upkeep of the Kadu Malleshwara temple. Medaraninganahalli was a village that was located around the IISc campus. Another undated Kannada inscription in Sampige road was documented in the supplementary Volume 9 of Epigraphia carnatica, it mentions that the inscription was found near Jakkarayanakere which corresponds to the area around Krishna Flour Mill in Sampige Road, Malleshwaram. Much of the text published is incomplete and is a possible donatory inscription. However, the existence of Jakkarayana kere (lake) near Sampige road documented more than a century ago is established.
H. V. Nanjundaiah, the first Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University is credited with the building of the then suburb of Malleshwaram. The neighbourhood of Malleshwaram has been host to many accomplished people: the Nobel laureate C.V. Raman, scientist Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, badminton world champion Prakash Padukone and his daughter Deepika Padukone, noted Carnatic musician Doraiswamy Iyengar and film stars Saroja Devi, Ananth Nag and Jaggesh have all lived here.
Malleshwaram is home to some of Bangalore's heritage cafés such as CTR Shri Sagar (1920s), Janatha Hotel, Raghvendra Stores, New Krishna Bhavan, Veena Stores, and Snehajeevi Gowdara Egg Rice Adda.
H. V. Nanjundaiah, the first Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University is credited with the building of the then suburb of Malleshwaram. The neighbourhood of Malleshwaram has been host to many accomplished people: the Nobel laureate C.V. Raman, scientist Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, badminton world champion Prakash Padukone and his daughter Deepika Padukone, noted Carnatic musician Doraiswamy Iyengar and film stars Saroja Devi, Ananth Nag and Jaggesh have all lived here.
Malleshwaram is home to some of Bangalore's heritage cafés such as CTR Shri Sagar (1920s), Janatha Hotel, Raghvendra Stores, New Krishna Bhavan, Veena Stores, and Snehajeeevi Gowdara Egg Rice Adda.
Location
It is located in the North-Western part of the city and is in close proximity to Yeshwanthpur, Gokula, Rajajinagar, Sadashivanagar, Seshadripuram and the Kempegowda Bus Station. The closest metro stations to this place are the Sampige Road metro station and Srirampura metro station.
Tourist attractions
A few tourist attractions in and around Malleshwaram are Kadu Malleshwara Temple, Orion Mall, Mantri Square Mall, Bangalore Palace, ISKCON Temple and Sankey tank.
Notable locations
Kadu Malleshwara Temple
Sri Gangamma Devi Temple
Sri Dakshinamukha Nandi Tirtha Kalyani Kshetra
Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Temple
Sri Sai Mandali Malleshwaram
Sri Venugopala Swamy Temple
Sankey tank
Mantri Square
Malleshwaram inscriptions and hero stones
Orion Mall
Institute of Wood Science and Technology
Indian Institute of Science
References
External links
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Civil administration Bangalore Agenda Task Force
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Buildings Attara Kacheri
Bengaluru Palace
Bangalore Town Hall
Central Prison
Chinnaswamy Stadium
Daly Memorial Hall
Karnataka High Court
K. R. Market
Nehru Planetarium
Utility Building
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Visvesvaraya Museum
World Trade Center
Transport Kempegowda International Airport
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Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal
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Roads 100 Feet Road
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Bannerghatta Road (SH 87)
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Inner Ring Road
J C Road
Kasturba Road
Lavelle Road
M.G. Road
Mysore Road (SH 17)
NICE Road
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Outer Ring Road
Peripheral Ring Road
Tannery Road
Places of worship Bull Temple
Dodda Ganesha Temple
Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple
Jnanakshi Rajarajeshwari Temple
Halasuru Someshwara Temple
ISKCON
Kote Jalakantheshwara temple
Kote Venkataramana Temple
Naganatheshwara Temple
Ragigudda Anjaneya Temple
Ranganathaswamy Temple
St. Mary's Basilica
Culture
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Linux User Group
Birdwatchers' Field Club
Parks Bannerghatta Biological Park
Bugle Rock
Cubbon Park
Freedom Park
Lal Bagh
Bengaluruportal
Famous people
Central business district
Bangalore Rural District
List of cities known as Silicon Valleys
Tourist attractions
Lakes
Chola temples in Bengaluru
Economy
Encyclopedic content adapted from the Wikipedia article on Malleshwaram, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
