Vijayanagar, Bangalore

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Vijayanagar is a residential locality in western Bangalore, India. It derives its name from the Vijayanagara empire that flourished in south India in the 15th and 16th centuries. It is bound by Mysore Road and Magadi Road, with Chord Road cutting through.

People started dwelling in this locality from late 1970s. It has a sizable middle class population. Early inhabitants were employees of organisations such as BHEL, KIMCO, and AMCO, which are located on Mysore Road.

Maruti Mandir , Shani Mahatma temple, Kodandaramaswamy temple, Siva Ganapati temple, Adichunchunagiri temple are some of the prominent Saivite and Vaishnavaite shrines in this area.

Vijayanagar has a close proximity to RV Engineering College, PES Institute of Technology, the Bangalore University and the National Law School of India University. Vijayanagar East is popularly known as RPC Layout (Railway Parallel Colony Layout), since there is an adjacent railway track to it. It has been recently renamed as Hampi Nagar^{[citation needed]}. Hampi was the capital of the Vijayanagar Empire under Krishna Deva Raya.

Vijayanagar also houses a large Public Library, which is one of the largest in Karnataka^{[citation needed]}. Chandra Layout is one of the fastest growing localities of Vijayanagar, which houses some of the prominent people of Bangalore^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Schools and Colleges

Vijayanagar has many well recognized educational institutions, such as the St John's Educational Institutions, The New Cambridge English School, and Bharatiya Samskriti Vidya Peetha.

Neighbourhoods of Bangalore