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{{Short description|Village  in Villupuram, Tamil Nadu }}
{{primary sources|date=July 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}}
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| subdivision_name1       = [[Tamil Nadu]]
| subdivision_name2       = [[Viluppuram district]]
| subdivision_name3       = [[Viluppuram]]
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'''"Kalpattu'''" or '''Kelpet''' is a village neighbourhood of [[Mambalapattu]], [[Tamil Nadu]], kanai block.The village is spelt in two ways kalpattu or kelpet. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/data/population-finder|title=Kalpattu Village Population - Viluppuram - Viluppuram, Tamil Nadu|website=censusindia.gov.in}}</ref>There are up to 900 household with up to 4000 people.
The village is widely known for St.Paul the Hermit church.
==St.Paul the Hermit church==
[[File:St.Paul_Hermit_Church_Old_church.jpg|220x124px|thumb|right|Old St.Paul the Hermit church]]
St.Paul the Hermit churchis the old church, the newer one attached to the right side of old church.. The St. Paul's feast comes every year on 8 August the feast celebrate very grandly every year, people come from everywhere and some people stay there till the feast end.<ref>https://www.justdial.com/Villupuram/St-Paul-The-Hermit-Shrine-Kalpattu/9999P4146-4146-180101235016-D8B5_BZDET</ref>
[[File:St_Paul_the_hermit_Church,_kalpattu.jpg|220x124px|thumb|right|New St. Paul the Hermit church]]
== Sri Shaniswarar Temple==
This temple is also famous where the people come from nearby villages for festival <ref>https://www.justdial.com/Villupuram/Shri-Saneeswaran-Temple-Kalpattu/9999P4146-4146-191120204535-X1J4_BZDET</ref>
==Location==
The Kalpattu village which is located in kannai block,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.abplive.com/pincode/tamil-nadu/villupuram/kanai-pincode-605301.html|title=KANAI Pin Code - 605301, Villupuram All Post Office Areas PIN Codes, Search VILLUPURAM Post Office Address|website=news.abplive.com}}</ref> [[Viluppuram]] district, [[Tamil Nadu]]<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.google.com/maps/place/Kalpattu,+Tamil+Nadu+605302/@11.9367005,79.3704909,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x3bacab37ff20cbcd:0xe684f588cf0a6c3c?hl=en-IN&gl=in
|title= kalpattu, Google maps
|publisher=Google maps
|access-date=2023-06-21
}}</ref>.In Villupuram city  the road called [[Mambalapattu]] road through the road able to go kalpattu and many other villages and also known town [[Tirukoilur]] nowadays people not getting buses for kalpattu there are only few buses at all so mostly people take tirukoilur bus and they go to mambalapattu and then they go through kalpattu road to reach kalpattu.
==Education==
In kalpattu there are R.C primary <ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.google.com/maps/place/W9PC%2BV6V+R.C.+Primary+School,+Kalpattu,+Tamil+Nadu+605302/@11.9372497,79.3705462,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x3bacab37c2892841:0xaca08b19d74eb878!8m2!3d11.9372497!4d79.3705462!16s%2Fg%2F11g6jbbw1b?hl=en-IN
|title=R.C primary school kalpattu, Google maps
|publisher=Google maps
|access-date=2023-06-21
}}</ref> and government schools.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.google.com/maps/place/W9P9%2B2G4+Govt+school,+Kalpattu,+Tamil+Nadu+605302/@11.9349207,79.3691807,18z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x3bacab39d4475b4d:0x1539da01a5ebc56e!8m2!3d11.9350096!4d79.3688149!16s%2Fg%2F11c37_m5sl?hl=en-IN
|title=government school kalpattu, Google maps
|publisher=Google maps
|access-date=2023-06-21
}}</ref> In r.c primary school 1st to 5th standard and after that students go to government school. so education is only available till 10th standard in kalpattu after that students go to [[Mambalapattu]] school for 11th and 12th after 12th they to city for colleges.
==Business==
Their main business is agriculture however some of them are working in cities
==See also==
* [[Mambalapattu]]
* [[Viluppuram district]]
* [[Tirukoilur]]
== References ==
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==External link==
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[[Category:Villages in Viluppuram district]]