MyMylapore is a local guide and community desk for Chennai’s oldest living quarter: temple streets, San Thome, tiffin messes, sabhas, civic updates, jobs and property across the Mylapore belt.
Civic issues, festivals, food, transport and practical neighbourhood updates drawn from the living streets around the tank.
The 2026 festival ran 23 March–1 April, with Therottam and Arupathimoovar crowding the four mada streets. Next year’s dates will follow the Tamil calendar.
Neo-Gothic cathedral over St. Thomas’s tomb, with weekday English Mass at 6:15 AM.
The 22nd Sundaram Finance edition ran 3–4 and 8–11 January around the temple.
The neighbourhood’s classic tiffin trail is still a morning ritual.
Procession days still reshape parking and bus movement around the tank.
From the painted gopuram to the white San Thome spire, these are the places the older mymylapore.com site documented first.
Pallava-era Shiva shrine rebuilt by the Vijayanagara Tuluva dynasty. Darshan 5:30 AM–12:30 PM and 4:00–9:30 PM. 044 2464 1670.
National shrine over the tomb of St. Thomas. Portuguese church of 1523, neo-Gothic rebuild of 1896, minor basilica since 1956.
The Order’s first southern centre, started in 1897 by Swami Ramakrishnananda on Ramakrishna Math Road.
Long-running messes around the temple, documented by residents for decades.
Three generations; keerai vadai, podi dosai, rava pongal with avial and degree coffee. Now with AC dining.
Family-run idli, pongal and vadai house named for Raghavendra Swami followers. Limited tables, long morning queue.
Hot bhajji passed through a single window. A Mylapore evening landmark as much as a snack stall.
Festival dates move with the Tamil calendar. Always reconfirm on the temple or organiser notice.
Kodiyetram, daily vahanams, Therottam, Arupathimoovar and Thirukalyanam. Archive photos from earlier years are in the gallery.
Kutcheris at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Ragasudha Hall and mutts around the mada streets. Dates firm up each November.
The 2026 edition used 9 venues and 25 events. Kolam contests return to North Mada Street each year.
Portraits from the original My Mylapore Panguni coverage, still the visual memory of these streets.
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