Malleshwara (also referred as Malleshwaram) is a northwest neighborhood and one of the

zones Zone or The Zone may refer to: Places Climate and altitude zones * Death zone (originally the lethal zone), altitudes above a certain point where the amount of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span * Frigid zone, ...

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is the administrative body responsible for civic amenities and some infrastructural assets of the Greater Bengaluru metropolitan area. It is the fourth largest Municipal Corporation in India an ...

Bengaluru Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

, 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 1878 Survey of India map, the area came under the village of Ranganatha Palya and later was named after the

Kadu Malleshwara Temple The Kadu Malleshwara Temple kn, ಕಾಡು ಮಲ್ಲೇಶ್ವರ is a 17th-century A.D. Hindu temple dedicated to the Shiva located in the Malleshwara locality of Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The word 'Kadu' means forests, here referr ...

. The neighbourhood houses many offices one them being

World Trade Center Bengaluru The World Trade Center Bangalore (WTCB) is a building complex located in Malleswaram West, Bangalore, India, which was opened for operation in 2010. Built by Brigade Group who obtained the World Trade Centers Association, WTCA license for its co ...

. It also has shopping malls

Mantri Square Mantri Square ( kn, ಮಂತ್ರಿ ಚೌಕ) is a shopping mall situated in the Malleswaram locality in Bangalore, Karnataka, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-la ...

and

Orion Mall Orion Mall is a shopping mall at Brigade Gateway Enclave in Bangalore, Karnataka, India developed by Brigade Group (Developer). The mall with a total shopping area of 8.2 Lakh sq.ft. is the 3rd largest in Bangalore. About Orion Mall is par ...

(at the two ends of the locality). Education boards of the state- KSEEB and PU boards - are located here.

History

H. V. Nanjundaiah Hebbalalu Velpanur Nanjundaiah (1860 – 1920) was the acting Diwan of Mysore, founder and first Vice Chancellor of the University of Mysore, senior judge of the Mysore State High Court and founding president of the Kannada Sahitya Sammelana. ...

, the first Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University is credited with the building of the then suburb of Malleshwara. The neighbourhood of Malleshwara hosts people from all walks of life. The Nobel laureate

C.V. Raman Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (; 7 November 188821 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when ...

, scientist

Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (born 24 October 1940) is an Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from 1994 to 2003. He is presently Chancellor of Central University of Rajasthan and NIIT University. He ...

, badminton world champion

Prakash Padukone Prakash Padukone (born 10 June 1955) is a former Indian badminton player. He was ranked World No. 1 in 1980; the same year he became the first Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Championships. He was awarded the Arjuna award in 1972 ...

and his daughter

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, noted Carnatic musician

Doraiswamy Iyengar Mysore Venkatesha Doreswamy Iyengar (1920-1997) was a Carnatic musician and one of the greatest exponents of the veena in modern Indian history. Early life He was a son of Venkatesha Iyengar, a learned vainika and royal musician at the cour ...

and film stars

Saroja Devi Bangalore Saroja Devi (born 7 January 1938) is an Indian actress who has acted in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films. She acted in around 200 films in over six decades. She is known by the epithets "''Abhinaya Saraswathi''" (Saraswathi of ac ...

Ananth Nag Dr Anant Nagarkatte (born 4 September 1948) is an Indian actor whose predominant contribution has been in Kannada cinema. He has acted in over 300 films which include over 200 Kannada films as well as Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam and Eng ...

and

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have all lived here. Malleshwara 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

Yeshwanthpura Yeshwanthpur, officially Yeshwanthpura is a locality in the north western part of Bangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located to the north of Malleshwara and west of Hebbala. The biggest wholesale market of agricultural produce in ...

Rajajinagara Rajajinagar, officially Rajajinagara is a residential neighborhood and business hub in the west of Bangalore. It is one of the zones of BBMP. It is bordered by Basaveshwaranagara, Malleshwara, Mahalakshmipura alias West of Chord road second st ...

, Sadashivanagara,

Seshadripura Seshadripura is a prime locality. residential and commercial locality in the central part of the city of Bangalore, India. It is named after K. Seshadri Iyer, who was a Dewan of Mysore State. It is also famous for its colleges. Some of the mai ...

and the Majestic Bus Stand. The closest metro stations to this place are the

Sampige Road metro station Sampige Road, officially named Mantri Square Sampige Road, is a metro station on the Green Line of the Namma Metro serving the Malleswaram area of Bangalore, India. It was opened to the public on 1 March 2014. The station was constructed by M ...

and

Srirampura metro station Srirampura is a metro station on the Green Line of the Namma Metro serving the Srirampura area of Bengaluru, India. It was opened to the public on 1 March 2014. Station layout Entry/Exits There are 3 Entry/Exit points – A, B and C. Comm ...

Tourist attractions

A few tourist attractions in and around Malleshwara are

Orion mall Orion Mall is a shopping mall at Brigade Gateway Enclave in Bangalore, Karnataka, India developed by Brigade Group (Developer). The mall with a total shopping area of 8.2 Lakh sq.ft. is the 3rd largest in Bangalore. About Orion Mall is par ...

, Mantri mall, The Bangalore Palace , Iskon Temple and Sankey Lake. Malleshwara is also famous for its mouth-watering dosas from CTR and delicious Idly, Chutney from Veena Stores.

Notable locations

Sri Gangamma Devi Temple Sri Gangamma Devi Temple is located near the Kadu Malleshwara temple on 2nd Temple Street, Malleshwara layout, in the north-western area of Bangalore city. The main deity of the temple is Gangamma or the Goddess Ganga, who is also considere ...

Sri Dakshinamukha Nandi Tirtha Kalyani Kshetra Sri Dakshinamukha Nandi Tirtha Kalyani Kshetra is a small temple located in front of the Gangamma temple and diagonally opposite to the Kadu Malleshwara temple on 2nd Temple Street, Malleswaram layout in the north-western area of Bangalore cit ...

* Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Temple * Sri Venugopala Swamy Temple * Sankey tank *

References

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