Kengeri is a western suburb of Bangalore city, located along Mysore Road.It is bordered by Nagarbhavi and Ullal to the north, Rajarajeshwari Nagar to the east, Kumbalgodu to the west and Uttarahalli to the south.

After Hoysala ruler's regime, during the period of Vijayanagar Empire, Kengeri was vested with Yelahanka province administration.

In the survey report prepared by Colonel McKenzie and Bakunin, after death of Tippu, there is mention about remains of Kengeri Fort.

It is learnt that Tippu for the first time bought foreign knowledge of sericulture and encouraged people to cultivate and produce the same.

In 1866, Signor de Vecchi, an Italian, noticing the then depressed condition of the silk industry made efforts with the help of the government for its revival.

To remedy these defects, silkworm eggs were imported for the first time from Japan and were distributed among the people of the trade.

The Kengeri Gurukula Vidya Peetha was founded in 1926 by freedom fighters and Gandhians like Dr C B Rama Rao, Swamy Vishwananda, T Ramachandra and K B Purushottam to motivate youngsters to do their bit for social causes.

The Vidyapeetha, an NGO, runs an orphanage, a free residential school and a short-stay-home for underprivileged women hoping for early rehabilitation.

College of Engineering, and SJB Institute of Technology.Bangalore University is located in close proximity to the suburb.Global Village Tech Park is situated in the suburb.

Kengeri is blessed with a prominent purple-line metro station, a railway station that serves as a stop for many trains plying in the route of Mysuru Jn (MYS) and Krantiveera Sangoli Rayana Railway Station Bengaluru (SBC) railway line, including Vande Bharat Express plying between Mysuru Jn (MYS) and MGR Chennai Central (MAS), a bustling Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway and a connecting point for most of the towns in Bengaluru South.

Inside the garbhagriha, two inscription slabs carpeted into the floor, one behind and another in front of the main deity, are of Hoysala Narasimha.

[2] The place has a small but an ancient Eshwara temple near the entrance to Kengeri Fort area.

It is said that the mata was founded by one Channaveeraswamy who is believed to have been a contemporary of Bijjala, the most famous of the southern Kalachuri kings.