The name Tirupattur means a group of ten villages/small towns and ten temples. There exists a village called Aathiyur (Aathi means Begin) in the southern fringes of the Town and Kodiyur (Kodi means End) in the northern fringes of the town. It is surrounded by several of these villages, making Tirupattur a Taluk.It has Old Shiva, Vishnu temples and Tanks (Big Tank & Small Tank) built during the Hoysala Dynasty. It is well connected by road and rail to other important cities of Tamil Nadu such as Thiruvannamalai, Chennai, Salem, Coimbatore and Vellore and to Bangalore in Karnataka. This town is also famous in Islamic religious circles as many great saints “Awliyas” had made it their home town. Some of them are buried at various places in the town, including Hazrat Syed Sha Mohammed alias Syed Khawja Meeran Hussaini Jaffari, Hazrat Syed Sha ameenuddin Hussaini Chisty ur Kahdri (who is better known as Munshi Hazrat); he was the last among a series of saints who have lived and have been buried at Tirupattur. more…
