Victoria Technical Institute is an institute established to commemorate the silver jubilee

Silver Jubilee

A Silver Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 25th anniversary. The anniversary celebrations can be of a wedding anniversary, ruling anniversary or anything that has completed a 25 year mark...

 celebrations of Queen Victoria. The institute promotes traditional handicrafts of South India.

History

The Victoria Technical Institute was opened in Pantheon Road, Egmore

Egmore

-Main places:* Chennai Egmore railway station.* Office of the commissioner of Greater Chennai Police department.* Government Museum, Chennai.* Connemara Public Library, one of the biggest libraries in India.* National Art Gallery...

, Madras in the year 1889 in commemoration of the silver jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria. The foundation stone of the building was laid by the then Prince of Wales

George V of the United Kingdom

George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....

 in 1905. The pink sandstone Indo-Saracenic

Indo-Saracenic

The Indo-Saracenic Revival was an architectural style movement by British architects in the late 19th century in British India...

 construction resembled the Mughal Emperor Akbar's palace in Fatehpur Sikri

Fatehpur Sikri

Fatehpur Sikri is a city and a municipal board in Agra district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Built near the much older Sikri, the historical city of Fatehabad, as it was first named, was constructed by Mughal emperor Akbar beginning in 1570...

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The Victoria Technical Institute was moved to Mount Road in 1956 and presently occupies a building next to the head office of the Indian Overseas Bank

Indian Overseas Bank

Indian Overseas Bank is a major bank based in Chennai , with 2018 domestic branches and six branches overseas. Indian Overseas Bank has an ISO certified inhouse Information Technology department, which has developed the software that 2018 branches use to provide online banking to customers; the...

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