Ramapuram is a census village in Kanyakumari District

Kanyakumari District

Kanyakumari District ) is a district of Tamil Nadu state, India and is the southernmost land area of mainland India.The district is the second most urbanised district in Tamilnadu, next only to Chennai and ahead of Coimbatore. It also has the highest literacy and education levels in the...

 in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

. Its original name (with diacritics) is Rāmāpuram. Ramapuram is located at 8.08403°N 77.54187°E. It has an average elevation of 5 metres. Ramapuram Taluk comes under the Agasteeswaram taluk

Agasteeswaram taluk

Agasteeswaram taluk is a taluk of Kanyakumari district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Agastheeswaram- Population :...

 of Kanyakumari

Kanyakumari

Kanyakumari is a town in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. It is also sometimes referred to as Cape Comorin. Located at the southernmost tip of the Indian Peninsula, it is the geographical end of the Indian mainland. The district in Tamil Nadu where the town is located is called Kanyakumari...

 District. The Postal Code for Ramapuram is 629303.

Nearby Places

• 2.7 km W of Kanyakumari district
  Kanyakumari District
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• 9.8 km SE of Suchindram
  Suchindram
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• 15.1 km SE of Nagercoil
  Nagercoil
  Nagercoil is the 12th largest city in the southernmost Indian state of Tamil Nadu and a municipality and administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District...
  
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• 27.2 km ExSE of Manavalakurichi
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Locale

This village is as old as its church, nearly 150 years old. Almost all the residents of this village are from same community, Nanjil Nattu Vellala Pillai. Though they all were orthodox

Orthodoxy

The word orthodox, from Greek orthos + doxa , is generally used to mean the adherence to accepted norms, more specifically to creeds, especially in religion...

 high caste Hindus, families of Ramapuram were converted to Roman Catholic

Catholic

The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

 some 150 years ago. People still follow the culture

Culture

Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...

 and traditions of their Hindu counterparts.

Near Ramapuram there is a bigger village called Andarkulam. In area and population it is big but Ramapuram village is center in all the ways.