Tirupati Accommodation

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being the major pilgrimage of Hindus, receives innumerable devotees every day. If you are planning to visit the abode of Lord Venkateshwara and thinking about the accommodation, then keep your worries aside, since Tirupati has numerous places to stay. Taking into account the lodging requirements of visitors, Government has developed various guest houses and lodges to keep the people at ease.

Apart from Government accommodations, there are many private hotels and guest houses at Tirupati. You can choose your kind of accommodation from the wide array of luxury hotels, budget hotels, economy hotels, guest houses and lodges. The luxury hotels undoubtedly provide excellent services, while serving their guests with hospitality. These hotels are the best deals for leisure travelers, since they are dotted with all extravagant facilities.

Several luxury hotels have all the conveniences for business travelers too. Besides these hotels, there are many budget hotels and guest houses that offer decent accommodation with all the basic facilities. Most of the hotels are centrally located, making it easier to move around the city. Sightseeing tours can also be planned with assistance from the travel desk at the hotels. Here is given a list of the places to stay in Tirupati.

Luxury Hotels

• Hotel Bliss (3 Star)
• Hotel Kalyan Residency (3 Star)
• Hotel Guestline (3 Star)
• Hotel Mayura (3 Star)
• Hotel Sindhuri Park (3 Star)
• Ramee Guestline Hotel (3 Star)
• Hotel Fortune Kences

Budget Hotels

• Bhimas Deluxe Hotel
• Hotel Bhimas Paradise
• Bhimas Residency

Guest Houses

• Sri Padmavathi Guest House
• Sri Venkateswara Guest House
• Sri Varahaswami Guest House
• TTD Alipiri Guest House

Lodges

• Sri Kodandarama Dharmasala
• Sri Govindaraja Dharmasala
• Sri Venkateswara Dharmasala

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Healthcare centers and Hospitals

VRR government general hospital (known as Ruiya hospital) with attached SV medical college is one of the well known hospitals besides SVIMS, a super speciality Center with modern facilities and S.V.Ayurveda college hospital run by TTD to providing health services to the poor and needy patients even at free of cost, BIRRD an orthopedic center catering for physically handicapped where surgeries are done free of cost treating polio, cerebral palsy and many other congenital anamolies. Numerous small to mid-sized hospitals exist in private sector, in addition to RUSSH Hospitals pvt limited which is the second largest Privately owned hospital in Tirupati. SVRR government hospital has minimal infrastructure and lacks an institution policy

The water fall

Education

Tirupati is not only a piligrimage center but an educational hub. It is home to several universities, including

• Sri Venkateswara University
  
• Sri Padmavati Mahila Viswavidyalayam (SPMVV) (one among two women universities in India)
  
• Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth
  
• Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth - Directorate of Distance Education
  
• Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences
  
• Sri Venkateswara Vedic University
  
• Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University (SVVU)
  

Apart from these universities, it has state government sponsored medical, agricultural colleges and also an engineering college. Around 5 engineering Colleges exist in and around Tirupathi. It has nearly 50 UG & PG (MBA, MCA) degree colleges.

Also present is a state-of-art Dental college and Research Center, providing free dental health care to the people of Tirupati and surrounding villages. This institute also provides PG programme in 4 different dental brances.

Culture

Tirupati is a landmark in the culture and traditions for Hindus. The residents and visitors can be seen in both traditional attire like pancha and using , lungi and chira and modern attire. Practices of tonsuretilaka are commonly seen. Songs and prayers of Lord Venkateswara like Annamacharya kirtanas can be heard all over the city. Every year, "Telugu Bhasha Bramhostavams" are conducted here to delevop the usage of Telugu language.

Festivals

The town celebrates most Vaishnava festivals including Vaikunta Ekadasi, Rama Navami and Janmashtami with great splendor, while the Brahmotsavam celebrated every year during September is the most important festival in Tirumala when it receives millions of devotees over a short span of a week. Rathasapthami (Magha Shuddha Saptami) is another festival, celebrated during February, when Lord Venkateswara's idol is taken in a procession around the temple chariots.

Another local festival Gangamma Jathra is also celebrated as a major festival. The Goddess Gangamma is offered animal sacrifices and also pongal and other offerings by the devotees. She is considered as the sister of The Lord Almighty, Govinda.

Religious Attractions

There are many temples in Tirupati and Tirumala. Some of them are:

• Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, dedicated to Lord Vishnu as 'Venkateswara' (or Srinivasa) and attracts followers from a wide range of Hindu traditions.
• Alamelu Mangamma Shrine in Alamelumangapuram also called Thiruchanoor
• Padmavati Temple
• Govindaraja Swamy Temple
• Kodanda Rama Swamy Temple: The temple is so beautiful in architecture. Lord Rama, Seetha and Lakshmana are present in a beautiful form in the temple. Lord Anjaneya Swamy is seen near the foot of Lord Rama. The temple is in the heart of the city. There is also another temple dedicated to Lord Anjaneya Swamy opposite to Kodhanda Rama Swamy Temple. Prasadams are offered daily to pilgrims.

• Srinivasa Mangapuram
• Kapila Theertham (Lord Shiva shrine, the only Shiva shrine in Tirupati): This temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva and Parvati. There is a beautiful waterfall near the temple.

ISKCON Temple at Tirupati

• ISKCON Lord Krishna Temple - The temple has its own style of architecture with the towers coloured in gold and white. The carvings of Lord Narasimha Swamy, Lord Varaha Swamy and Krishna Leela are marvelous. Glass painting works on the windows depicting Lord Krishna's playful acts and the ceilings decorated like Tanjore art reveals the colourful masterpiece in art work. Each pillar is decorated with ten avatars of Lord Vishnu. The temple inside the sanctum has Lord Krishna with beautifully dressed Gopikas. There is a beautiful park surrounded with lot of flowers, ponds, fountains and with Krishna Leela idols. The temple is on the way to Tirumala Hills.

Akasha Ganga inTirumala

Temple of Lord Shiva at Yogimallavaram, near to Tirupati is very old and is very famous

Transportation

Road

Tirupati has the third largest bus station in Andhra Pradesh. It has nearly 50 platforms. Tirupati has another bus station near Alipiri. For every 2 minutes, there is a bus facility from Tirupati to Tirumala. Tirupati has bus facilities connecting almost each and every important city and town. Tirupati has good infrastructure. The by-pass laid by NTR is a six lane road covering most of the parts in the city. Tirupati is criss-crossed by National Highways. For every 3-4 km, traffic signals are present to control the traffic. Many non air-conditioned and air-conditioned buses are operated by the government-run APSRTC and other private operators connecting Tirupati to other major cities and towns directly.

Rail

Tirupati East railway station has 10 platforms. The station is currently undergoing moderanisation with the construction of 3 escalators. There is another major junction in Tirupati (Renigunta).Tirupati West railway station and Chandragiri stations are also present which have to be developed. There are many trains travelling across the country with Tirupati as the starting point. Tirupati is connected to all the cities in the country with railways. Tirupati railway station is the fourth in India to be recognised as a "World class" with Mumbai, Delhi, Secunderabad in the first three places.

Air

Tirupati Airport is the third airport established in the state. It operates national airlines between Tirupati and Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Delhi and Visakhapatnam. Air India operates flights from Hyderabad and Delhi, while Deccan operates flights from Vishakapatnam(Vizag), Hyderabad and Bengaluru. The airport is located 15 km from the city center. Paramount Airways is planning to launch its service soon. Other services are roping up to join the big league too. The airport is huge and to international standards. The runway is being extended by 1 km and the night landing facility has been installed recently.

Express Coach (Inter-City)

Climate

In summer, temperatures may go up to 42 to 45 degrees Celsius (107.6 F to 113 F),and in winter the minimum temperatures will be between 10 and 18 degrees Celsius ( 50 F to 64.4 F). Usually summer lasts from March to June, with the advent of rainy season in July, followed by winter which lasts till the end of February.

Geography

Tirupati is located in southern part of Andhra Pradesh. It has an average elevation of 162 metres (531 feet).

The Tirumala hill is 3200 ft above sea level, and is about 10.33 sq miles in area. It comprises seven peaks, representing the seven hoods of Adisesha, thus earning the name, Seshachalam. The seven peaks are called Seshadri, Neeladri, Garudadri, Anjanadri, Vrishabhadri, Narayanadri and Venkatadri.

Tirumala Map

History

The Tirumala hills are the world's second oldest rock mountains. The Sangam literature of Tamil such as Silapadikaram and Satanar's Manimekalai, dated between 500 BC to 300 AD, mentions Tiruvengadam (now named Tirupati) as the northernmost frontier of the Tamil Kingdoms.

It is believed that it was "Aadi Varaha Kshetra" (the ancient site of Varaha) mentioned in Indian literature dating during the Mauryan and Gupta regimes. Lord Venkateswara is referred in Vedas, Tirupati is considered as Kaliyuga Vaikuntha (Heaven on the earth).

Front View of Tirumala Temple

The site was an established center by the 5th century A.D, and the Alvars (Vaishnava saints) belonging to the Bhakti movement in Dravidian land sung in praise of Venketeswara. Its significance in Southern Vaishnava tradition was at the time next only to Srirangam. The temple was richly endowed by the kings of various dynasties thus adding to its current reputation as the richest and most opulent piligrimage centre in the world. It was supported by Cholas, later by Hoysalas, the Vijayanagaras. Krishna Deva Raya of Vijayanagara led the temple to great popularity by donating gold and other ornaments for the temple and constructing extended shrines. The place of Chandragiri, presently a village near Tirupati, was used as the secondary capital of Vijayanagara kings.

Tirupati survived the Muslim invasions of South India, unlike other temples such as the Meenakshi temple in Madurai and Ranganathaswamy temple in Srirangam. It is believed that during the invasions the deity of Sriranganatha from Srirangam was brought to Tirupati for safekeeping. To commemorate this event, a hall in Tirupati is still known as the Ranganatha mandapa.

In 1843, with the coming of the East India Company, the administration of the Sri Venkateshwara temple and a number of shrines was entrusted to Seva Dossji of the Hathiramji Mutt at Tirumala as Vicaranakarta for nearly a century until 1933, when the temple was under the administrative charge of the mahants. The Madras legislature passed a special act in 1933 whereby the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) committee was invested with powers of administration and control through a commissioner appointed by the Government of Madras. A Ryot Advisory Council was formed for the management of the estates of the TTD, and was assisted by a Religious Advisory Council with regard to religious matters.

Tirumala - Tirupati

Tirupati (Telugu: తిరుపతి) is the richest piligrimage city (of any religious faith) in the world, located in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.Tirupati is located at the foothills of Tirumala. The city owes its existence to the sacred temple situated on the Tirumala Hills. Tirumala is the abode of Lord Venkateshwara, one of the Avatars of Lord Vishnu, located atop Seshachala hills often called as "Yaedu Kondalu" (seven hills). The temple of Lord Venkateshwara was build by the Tamil king Thondaimaan, and reform preiodically by Cholas and later Telugu Kings. It is the richest and most visited temple (of any faith) in the world.

Tirupati MTP Kit Online has been a city for many years though recognised as a major municipal Corporation (MCT) only recently. It is the fourth largest city (5 lakh population and 56 km² area) in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Although the district headquarters is 60 km from the city, major government establishments and operations take place in Tirupati alone. The Tirupati Urban Development Authority further expanded its horizon to about 400 km² with a total population of about 8 lakhs. Tirupati is a very fast growing city with IT, BPO and Health industries coming. It is a major boom for real estate. Tirupati is also emerging into a major educational, entertainment, tourism and a commercial city.