Mudappallur is a village in the Palakkad district

Palakkad district

Palakkad District is one of the 14 districts of the Indian state of Kerala. The city of Palakkad is the district headquarters. Palakkad is bordered on the northwest by the Malappuram District, on the southwest by the Thrissur District and on the east by Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. The...

 of the state of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It is a small locality comes under the Vandazhi-II

Vandazhi-II

Vandazhi-II is a village in Palakkad district in the state of Kerala, India.-Demographics: India census, Vandazhi-II had a population of 11776 with 5740 males and 6036 females....

 village. Mudappallur's Postal Index Number is 678705.

Demographics

India census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Mudappallur had a population of 11176 with 5740 males and 6036 females.

Location

It is situated on the Trissur-Pollachi

Pollachi

Pollachi is a taluk of Coimbatore Rural district of the Tamil Nadu state of India. It lies in the southern part of the Coimbatore city around 40 kilometres from downtown Coimbatore. This is the second largest town in the District after Corporation of Coimbatore. Owing to the proximity to the...

 route. It is located 5 km away from Vadakkencherry and 10 km from Alathur

Alathur

Alathur is a small town in the Palakkad district of Kerala, South India. It is the headquarters of the Alathur Taluk and is situated at the south west end of the district 24 km from the district headquarters at Palakkad. Alathur Taluk is predominantly rural and has an agricultural economy...

. Mangalam Dam

Mangalam Dam

Mangalam Dam is a village in Palakkad district in the state of Kerala, India..mudappallur is the nearest local town to mangalam dam-Demographics: India census, Mangalam Dam had a population of 6008 with 2978 males and 3030 females.-Schools:...

 is nearer to this area.

Temples

Two renown temples of the village are Azhikulangara Bhagavathy temple and Shiva temple.

Azhikulangara Bhagavathy Temple

This temple is situated in Mudapallur of Vandazhi Panchayat at Palakkad district on the Vadakkenchery - Nemmara

Nemmara

Nemmara is a predominantly rural village in the Palakkad district of the state of Kerala in India. Nemmara and Vallangi form the two parts of this village.-Location:...

 route. The presiding deity facing east is Bhagavathy, on a Sila kannadi statue. Poojas are conducted twice, and the famous "vela" falls on the 8th of the Malayalam month ofEdavam, Ezhunallippu on the 9th and Thalapoly on the 10th. The temple belonged to Ammadam Kuruvattu Avanavu Mana but now it is being governed by a local committee under the control of HR & CEo.

Festivals

The major festival of the village is azhikulangara bhagavathy vela http://www.mudappallur.com/ which is yearly conducted on may 22nd.velaparambu is always will be the ground yard in front of the azhikulangara bhagavathy temple.Ezhunallippu,thalapoly,fireworks, elephants and panchavadyam etc. are the major attractions that makes the carnival a fabulous and a colourful celebration.

Mosques

Mudappallur got two mosques,http://www.snehasamvadam.com/ Salafi Masjid of http://www.salafivoice.comS/Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen

Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen

Kerala Nadwathul Mujahideen is a Salafi Islamic organization and movement within Sunni Islam in Kerala, India. One faction of the organization is working in co-operation with Ahl al-Hadith , an all-Subcontinental Islahi outfit...

and Sunnathu Jam'ath Masjid of Sunni.

Politics

The place is a communist stronghold with communists winning majority in the panchayat elections.