The Tamil Quarter
Inland from the French Quarter, rows of tiled-roof houses with covered verandas (thalvaram) and street benches (thinnai) form the Tamil town. Puducherry Tourism’s Tamil heritage walk starts at the Vedapureeswarar temple, around which the town grew.
5 stops · about 1.9 km between the stops in a straight line
Arunankapilan · CC BY-SA 3.0 TempleVedapureeswarar Temple (Easwaran Koil)
Shiva temple in the Tamil Quarter, destroyed in 1748 and rebuilt in 1788; with the Varadaraja Perumal temple close by, the nucleus around which the old town grew.
- Museum
Subramania Bharathi Memorial Museum
House where the Tamil poet and freedom fighter Subramania Bharathi lived after taking refuge from the British in Pondicherry; now a museum of his works.
- Market
Goubert Market (Grand Bazaar)
Pondicherry’s big market in the Tamil Quarter, on the Puducherry Tourism heritage walk through the Tamil streets.
BishkekRocks · CC BY-SA 3.0 ChurchImmaculate Conception Cathedral
Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, consecrated in 1791 and known locally as Samba Kovil.
- Mosque
Meeran Mosque (Meerapalli)
Sufi mosque built in the first quarter of the 18th century, the oldest standing mosque in Pondicherry, beside the grave of its founder, the Sufi saint Meeran Saheb.