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Valasaravakkam, Ambattur — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Valasaravakkam is a residential neighbourhood of Chennai on the Arcot Road, in the Maduravoyal Taluk of Chennai district, Tamil Nadu, India.
About Valasaravakkam
Where to stay in Valasaravakkam
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
The Arcot Road is the address that matters in Valasaravakkam. One of Chennai's arterial roads runs straight through the neighbourhood, which means beds here are chosen for access to the city rather than for a view, and the Sivan temple at Kesavardhini is the nearest thing to a draw. It is a residential suburb.
Anyone with business in the Maduravoyal Taluk or a reason to be on this side of Chennai district can stay put; everyone else finds a wider choice closer in to Chennai.
About Valasaravakkam
What are the main landmarks in Valasaravakkam?
Valasaravakkam keeps no monument quarter. Its best-known religious site is the Sivan temple at Kesavardhini, and beyond that the neighbourhood's fixed points are functional ones, chiefly the Arcot Road that runs through it as one of Chennai's arterial routes. The road does the orienting.
Anyone finding their way here does it by the Arcot Road rather than by a skyline, since Valasaravakkam grew as a residential suburb rather than as a quarter laid out for visitors.
What is the history of Valasaravakkam?
Valasaravakkam ran its own municipality until 2011. In October of that year the municipality ceased to exist and the area passed into the Corporation of Chennai, entering the city's Southern Region as Ward Nos 149 and 152. Chennai absorbed it.
What had been a town along the Arcot Road became a neighbourhood of Chennai district, still voting through the Maduravoyal election constituency and still administered within the Maduravoyal Taluk.
Where is Valasaravakkam?
Valasaravakkam sits in the Maduravoyal Taluk, about fifteen kilometres out from the Kilometer Zero stone of Chennai along the Arcot Road.
Updated August 2026