To Connemara Library 📚📚

“Nothing is more pleasant than exploring a library.” Yesterday, with my friends, I went to Connemara Public Library, Egmore, Tamil Nadu. This is one of the oldest libraries in the country. We went there to search for some materials for our project and to explore the place. It was a great treat to our eyes when we went to the old library building. The ceiling work and the architecture of the building were so amazing. It really felt like we went to some other place like Rajasthan, Jaipur, etc.

The Egmore Museum is also there in the same compound, but as we didn’t have time, we just went to the library and then walked around the place. It is a calm space which can give us a kind of comfort. There, we also found many sculptures, which were arranged outside the museum, and all of them were many years old. The old building really captured my attention the way the books were arranged and the old print versions of books like St. Jerome’s Bible.

We have only seen this kind of library in films, and this was the first time we entered such a very old and beautiful library. When we talked with the staff there, we came to understand that this December 5th they had completed 129 years. Many people came there, and most of them were in the library reading books, newspapers, magazines, and some of them were preparing for exams. We also found some birds like parakeets and pigeons there, who were also residing in some spaces of the building.

One thing I found interesting there was an age-old tree trunk which was exhibited outside. As it was a wonderful site, all of us took pictures there and collected resources from the library. It was a great experience to explore such an old library, and I request all my friends to go there at least once because it is such a marvelous place where you can see age-old sculptures, scriptures, books, and buildings.