Religion
Guduvancheri houses more than 20 temples (Sri Nantheeshwarar Temple, Sri Lakshmi Narayanan temple, Mamarathu (Mango tree) Pillayar Temple, Sri Neethe Vinayagar Temple, Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple, Muthumariamman Temple, Vaelli Amman temple, Puthupalayathu Amman temple and a lot of Amman temples), and churches like Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church(More than 550 families), C.S.I St. Andrew Church(more than 350 member families), IGM Church and a few Mosques. Nandeeswarar temple is one of the historical temple of Guduvancheri.
Vethathiri Maharishi who founded World Community Service Centre(WCSC), a movement for world peace was born in Guduvancheri in 1911 and left earthly abode at the age of 95 in 2006 at Aliyar near Pollachi. He started as weaver from this town and became a great yoga practitioner and preacher apart from becoming a Siddha Expert.
Swamy Ramalinga Adigalar temple is present in mullakazhani and another is near the guduvancheri library.
Guduvancheri is also well known in Movies and TV for its name. Guduvancheri is the largest town between Tambaram and Chengelpat. It is the only town that has a Cinema theater between Tambaram and Chengalpattu, which is Venkateswara Theatre which serves the B-Center and C-center audience.
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