Watch at Mylapore

Mylapore is a  locality in the Southern part of the Chennai city. Previously known as Thirumayilai. Mylapore is one of oldest residential area. It is also one of the commercial region in the city. This area is thickly populated with Brahmins.

MTS buses are available to various locations from Mylapore. The Thirumyilai Railway station connects the place to Chennai beach and Velachery. The average rent for apartment in Mylapore area is Rs.31/- per square feet. For houses it is Rs.29/-. The average property price for apartment is Rs.11,878 per sq. ft. and for houses it is Rs. 21,036 per sq. ft.

Educational institutions in and around Mylapore:

1. St Bede's Anglo Indian Higher secondary school

2. MCTM Chidambaram Chettyar International IB School

3. P. S. Senior Secondary

4. Vidya Mandir Secondary School

5. St. John's Schools

6. Vivekananda College 
 

Hospitals:

1. Devaki Hospital

2. St. Isabel's Hospital

3. CSI Kalyani Multispeciality Hospital

Kapaleeswar temple and the Santhome Basilica is located in Mylapore.

San Thome Church

The word Santhome or San Thome is derived from Saint Thomas, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ. The local Christian belief is that the apostle came to India in A.D.52, was martyred in A.D.72 at St.Thomas Mount in the City and was interred in Mylapore. A church was built over his tomb and this is known as the San Thome Basilica. The Basilica is one of three churches that claim to have been built over the tomb of an apostle. The other two are St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy and the church of Saint James the Great in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Commonly known as Santhome Church, the International Shrine of St. Thomas Basilica has an underground tomb chapel where pilgrims can pray in front of the sepulchre of St. Thomas. Superstitious people believe that sand taken from the tomb has miraculous healing powers. Marco Polo the great Venetian traveller visited the tomb in 1292 and made a record of his visit in his travel diaries:
"The Christians who go thither in pilgrimage take of the earth from the place where the saint was killed (or buried), and give a portion thereof to anyone who is sick of a quartan or a tertian fever ; and by the power of God and of St. Thomas the sick man is incontinently cured."--Travels of Marco Polo Vol.II by Yule Edited by Cordier. Faithful people have had to wait many years to get a little sand from the tomb, as it is only opened infrequently, at intervals of a few hundred years.
The church has made a beautiful credit card for pilgrims, the St. Thomas Card,[1] with a little of the St. Thomas sand embedded in it. This can be carried around like a normal credit card in a wallet or purse.