A suburban locality of Chennai(then Madras) . It connects the northern part of the city to the southern part of the city. The place is named after syed shah , a high level official of the Arcot Nawab's court. The then saidapet included kotturpuram andNandanam. This place has distinctive places like Karuneeswarar temple, Marmalong Bridge(Maraimalai adigal bridge) 100 year old teachers training school. The locality is dominated by weavers community. Its vegetable market, is quite popular among the locals, situated on the Bazaar Road. Once upon a time , saidapet was known as "mosquito breeder" of Chennai south because of many cattle owners settled in and around that area. Though Guindy, another locality of chennai, remain a gateway to the city saidapet offers the best bus connectivity to the other parts of the city. This place comes under the chennai(south) Lok Sabha constituency. The present chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , M.Karunanidhi once contested and won from this constituency as a legislative member of the State assembly.
Saidapet, remained an important stop for the passengers coming into the city. However, this has changed in the recent years after the mofusil bus stand transferred to koyambedu. This place is well connected by buses, rail etc. The urbanisation has not left this locality many skyscrapers have come up . In the olden days, this locality resembled the semi-rural background all those old buildings are giving its way to apartments.
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