The Cosmopolitan Club in
Coimbatore,
Tamil Nadu
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,
India
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is a
club
Club may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Club'' (magazine)
* Club, a '' Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character
* Clubs (suit), a suit of playing cards
* Club music
* "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album '' kelsea''
Brands and enterprise ...
started in 1891 by a group of local citizens. It is located in Race Course Road, in the city of Coimbatore.
History
The land for the club was purchased from Jayashree V.Murthy of
Sulur
Sulur (Tamil:) is a town located in the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu, India. It is a suburb of Coimbatore. It is the headquarters of Sulur Taluk of Coimbatore district. There are many market places and many big retail and wholesale shops ...
on 25 July 1891. To an existing small shed, a clubhouse, a billiards room, card rooms and tennis courts were added. The front Porch was called Verandah club. A large tree in the vicinity was main meeting place of its members’ also called as Wisdom Tree.
Facilities
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Tennis courts
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be u ...
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Badminton court
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Billiards
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as .
There are three major subdivisions ...
and
Bridge room
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Library
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Bar
Bar or BAR may refer to:
Food and drink
* Bar (establishment), selling alcoholic beverages
* Candy bar
* Chocolate bar
Science and technology
* Bar (river morphology), a deposit of sediment
* Bar (tropical cyclone), a layer of cloud
* Bar (un ...
,
Party halls and
Accommodation
Notable members
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C. S. Rathinasabapathy Mudaliar - Industrialist, often regarded as Father of Coimbatore.
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C. Subramaniam - Former Union Minister and former
Governor of Maharashtra
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Bhagat ...
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R. K. Shanmugam Chettiar - India's first
Finance Minister
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A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", ...
and Industrialist
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Nirupama Vaidyanathan - Tennis player
References
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Organisations based in Coimbatore
Clubs and societies in India
Organizations established in 1891
1891 establishments in India