Sreekanteswaram is a place in the Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...

 city (Trivandrum), 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...

. The place is known for the Siva

Shiva

Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...

 temple, from which the name was derived. Pazhaya Sreekanteswaram Temple

Pazhaya Sreekanteswaram Temple

Pazhaya Sreekanteswaram Temple or Old Sreekanteswaram Temple, located at Puthenchantha in Thiruvananthapuram, is one of the ancient Siva temples in Kerala. According to the renowned historian Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai, this temple existed even in the 9 th century AD. This temple is the original abode...

 is the original abode of the Lord of new Sreekanteswaram.

Author of Sabdatharavali, Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai

Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai

Sreekanteswaram G. Padmanabha Pillai , popularly known as Sreekanteswaram, was a lexicographer and scholar best known for his Malayalam dictionary Sabdatharavali....

 hails from this place.

Sreekanteswaram is a busy residential area in the Thiruvananthapuram city and is bordered by Pazhavangadi

Pazhavangadi

Pazhavangadi is a village in the taluk of Ranni, Pathanamthitta district, in the state of Kerala, India.-Demographics: India census, Pazhavangadi had a population of 21058 with 10270 males and 10788 females....

 on the east, Fort on the south and Kaithamukku

Kaithamukku

Kaithamukku is a place in the Thiruvananthapuram city , India. The place is known for the Trivandrum Passport Office.Kaithamukku is a busy residential as well as commercial area in the Thiruvananthapuram city and is bordered by Pulimoodu on the east, Fort on the south, Pettah on the North and...

 on the west. The place is located around 1 km from East Fort

East fort

The East Fort is located at the heart of the CBD of Thiruvananthapuram city, the capital city of Kerala- a South Indian state.-History:East Fort got its name from the eastern entrance to the fort built by the Kings of Travancore. The old city was all inside the fort on four sides with the Sri...

and 2 km from Statue Junction. The Sreekanteswaram Park and the Sreekanteswaram Siva temple are the major landmarks.