Shirva is a village in

Udupi district Udupi district (also Udipi () in Kannada or Odipu () in Tulu language) is an administrative subdivision in the Karnataka state of India, with the district headquarters in the city of Udupi. It is situated in the Canara old north Malabar c ...

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

in India.

Demographics

According to Census 2011 information the location code or village code of Shirva village is 608825. Shirva village is located in Udupi taluka of Udupi district in Karnataka, India. It is situated 15km away from Udupi, which is both district & sub-district headquarter of Shirva village. As per 2009 stats, Shirva village is also a gram panchayat. The total geographical area of village is 3216.13 hectares. Shirva has a total population of 13,396 peoples, out of which male population is 6,328 while female population is 7,068. Literacy rate is 82.76% out of which 85.64% males and 80.18% females are literate. There are about 3,183 houses. Pincode of Shirva village locality is 574116.

Health

Our Lady of Health Church, Shirva

Our Lady of Health Church, which recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, is renowned for its

Gothic architecture Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High Middle Ages, High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It evolved f ...

. The altar had beautiful Roman styled paintings, which were replaced with newer paintings during renovation.

Notable people

Dayanand Shetty Dayanand Chandrashekhar Shetty (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian film and television actor and model, best known for his role as Senior Inspector Daya in India's longest-running television police procedural, '' CID''. He was inducted into t ...

, actor

References

Villages in Udupi district {{Udupi-geo-stub