Thousand Lights Mosque

Situated in the heart of city and facing with heavy traffic and busiest place in Chennai with walls bearing recently-painted sayings from the Holy Koran. It stands at the junction of Mount Road and Peters Road in an area known as Ayiramvilakku, which triangular wedge of hallowed Muslim buildings. The original mosque as constructed here by Nawab Umdat-ul-Umrah in 1800 for the assemblage of Shias during Muharram mourning. Ph:044-28518795.