Malleshwaram is a northwest neighbourhood and one of the zones of

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, 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

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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

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chief

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, half brother of

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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

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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 Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (24 October 1940 – 25 April 2025) was an Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from 1994 to 2003. Until his death, he was Chancellor of Central University of Rajasthan a ...

, badminton world champion

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and his daughter

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, noted Carnatic musician

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and film stars

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and

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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 New Krishna Bhavan (NKB) was a vegetarian restaurant in Malleshwaram, Bengaluru, Malleshwaram, Bengaluru. Founded in 1954 by Ramakrishna Prabhu, it ran for seven decades as a family business and primarily served Udupi cuisine, Udupi-style cuisin ...

, 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

, badminton world champion

and his daughter

, noted Carnatic musician

and film stars

and

have all lived here. Malleshwaram is home to some of Bangalore's heritage cafés such as CTR Shri Sagar (1920s), Janatha Hotel, Raghvendra Stores,

, 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 Yashavantapura (formerly Yeshwanthpur), also known as Yeshvantpur, is a locality in the northwestern part of Bangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located to the north of Malleshwara and west of Hebbala. The biggest wholesale marke ...

,Gokula,

Rajajinagar Rajajinagara (formerly Rajajinagar) is a luxury 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 stage ...

Sadashivanagar Sadashivanagara is an affluent residential neighbourhood in the northwestern part of Bangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is bounded by Malleshwaram to the west, Vyalikaval and Palace Guttahalli to the south, Palace grounds to the ea ...

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and the

Kempegowda Bus Station Kempegowda Bus Station (KBS) is a integrated main bus station in Bengaluru, India. It is located opposite the KSR Bengaluru railway station. It is bordered by Seshadri Road to the north, Danavanthri Road to the east, Tank Bund Road to the sou ...

. The closest metro stations to this place are the

Sampige Road metro station Mantri Square Sampige Road (formerly known as Sampige Road) is an important elevated metro station on the North-South corridor of the Green Line of Namma Metro serving the Malleswaram area of Bengaluru, India. It was opened to the public on 1 M ...

and Srirampura metro station.

Tourist attractions

A few tourist attractions in and around Malleshwaram are Kaadu Malleshwara Temple, Orion Mall, Mantri Square Mall,

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and Sankey tank.

Notable locations

* Kadu Malleshwara Temple * Sri Gangamma Devi Temple *

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 Sai Mandali Malleshwaram * Sri Venugopala Swamy Temple * Sankey tank * Mantri Square *

Malleshwaram inscriptions and hero stones Malleshwaram is a northwestern locality in Bengaluru, recognized as one of the city's oldest planned areas. While Malleshwaram was developed on modern lines as a new residential locality in 1898 following a plague epidemic, historical evidenc ...

* Orion Mall * Institute of Wood Science and Technology *

References

External links

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