I Live in chennai I want to go to Sripuram Golden temple how to reach there what is the best way.?

Question

I Live in chennai I want to go to Sripuram Golden temple how to reach there what is the best way.?

Answer 1

Sripuram Golden Temple is located in the South end of the city of Vellore in a village called Tirumalaikodi.

Sripuram

Thirumalikodi, Vellore - 632 055. Tamil Nadu, India

Contact info:  http://sripuram.org/

Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]

e-mail: [e-mail]



How to get there

Vellore is well connected by road, rail and air.

By Road

There are frequent buses leaving from the Chennai Bus Station at Koyambedu, which reach Vellore in about three hours. On arrival in Vellore, take a taxi, or an auto-rickshaw or bus to the temple. The town bus stand is located 10km from the main temple. Frequent buses to the temple are available. Route 8 and 8 series ply to Sripuram from the town bus stand.

By Rail

Vellore's main railway station is at Katpadi, at the northern end of the city. Katpadi junction is 18km from Sripuram.

[Two new railway stations(which will be opened by April 2008), namely, Vellore town and Vellore Cantonment is nearing completion. Cantonment is 8km from Sripuram while Town railway station is 10km from Sripuram. More direct trains are expected to be scheduled to Cantonment and Town railway stations.]

Katpadi station is a major junction on Chennai- Coimbatore/Bangalore train route. Several fast and superfast trains leave Chennai Central via Arakonam to Coimbatore/Bangalore.

Some Interesting Info on the Temple for General Purposes:

Construction of this temple began in 2001 and has taken six years to complete.  More than 400 gold and coppersmiths from the Thirupathi Thirumala Devasthanam are said to have worked for six years to craft the Rs 600-crore gold temple located on 55,000 sq ft of land on a 100-acre salubrious stretch in Malaikodi. [Wikipedia gives estimates of cost as INR 300 crores/ $ 160 million.]