Madurai Meenakshi Car (Ther) to be lighted bright in night

As we all know, there are two cars for Madurai Meenakshi Amman God and for Sivan Saami.
There is lot of significance for these thers (cars). The thers were built during the period of Thirumalai Naicker Period.

These cars are used during the Chithra Festival and comes around the Maasi street. After this festival, immediately these cars were kept safe inside a closed course. Only when it is in needed once in a year, the cars are taken out. Not much maintenance is done during the year, since it is not used.

Recently there was news that ignorant people who do not know the significance of the ther (god's car) 'pee' (urinate) near or around the ther. This is totally frustrating.

Later temple officials prepared a transparent glass for anybody to see the ther anytime in the day. Now, it is decided that lights are going to be lit to showcase the ther even in the night time and tourists can see the significance and magnificence of the ther car anytime and even during night time. This is sponsored by some company, looks like.

Also, regular cleaning is ordered by the temple officials and to maintain these thers properly.

In other hand, 10 inch LCD TVs (each worth Rs.30,000) are planned to be placed near the queues so that devotees can spend their time easily while standing and waiting to see the god in garbagraham.

Medical Tourism in Madurai - Meenakshi mission plans to open new hospital in Madurai and Thanjavur

In an attempt to redirect medical tourism opportunities from Chennai to smaller cities like Madurai and Thanjavur, which are popular tourist destinations for foreigners, Meenakshi Mission Hospital is planning to set up two hospitals, in Madurai and Thanjavur, with a combined investment of Rs 370 crore.

The 350-bed Madurai hospital will be built with an investment of around Rs 300 crore. It would have all major specialties like cardio, orthopedic, gastroenterology and nephrology, among others. The hospital has already signed a Rs 150-crore loan agreement with HDFC Bank for the project. The hospital in Thanjavur would be smaller with 200 beds and entail an investment of Rs 70 crore, of which Rs 50 crore would be loan component and the promoters would fund the rest through equity investment.

It is believed that Meenakshi mission has opened SunShine, a hotel an year back as a part of hospitality industry and that kind of shows a signal of the strategy and direction of the company.

All the Best Meenakshi Mission Hospital and wishing you a grand success in the ventures!

Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple gets ISO Certification

As it is already known that Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple is world famous and it is very ancient in make and the temple is very popular as such.

The tourists from other states come to visit Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple for praying Meenakshi Amman Goddess and to see the ancient world famous sculptures.
In addition many foreign tourists come to visit the world famous temple in Madurai.

In order to provide a clean environment for all the visitors, Madurai Temple has come up with ISO certification and it had been successful in achieving that as well.

This month, Madurai Meenakshi Amman temple gets the status of ISO Certification and it is a milestone in the history of this Madurai temple!

Singapore President visits Madurai Meenakshi Temple

Singapore President visits Madurai Meenakshi Temple

Madurai, Dec 15 (PTI) Singapore President S R Nathan visited the famous Meenakshi temple here along with his wife and other family members.
He was received at the temple yesterday with full temple honours by Chairman of the Board of Trustees Karumuthu T Kannan and Executive Officer R Padmanabhan, officials said.

Nathan and his family offered special ''pooja'' for about an hour after which Kannan explained the religious and historical significance of the temple to them, they said.
The President, visiting the temple for the second time in 20 years, was impressed by the development of the temple, he said.

Building Height restrictions around Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple

Around 250 buildings are ordered to be demolished around Madurai Meenakshi Amman temple, due to the fact that these buildings did not consider height limits or bribed the officers to construct the buildings over the corporation height limits.

These tall buildings around 1 kilometer radius are to be removed by Corporation/Police safely as soon as possible. There had been allegations on lot of bribe charges against certain few officers approving these constructions on non-compliance on heights in the city around Madurai Meenakshmi amman temple.

One of the important initiators (or the person who pulled the old files out) was Mr.Velladurai, Police Commissioner - a person to be commended!

Please read more here in dinamalar.

Post contributed by madurai mani!

Madurai Meenakshi Kumbabishekam Photos 2009 - Chitrai Festival - Buy Gold on Akshaya Tritiya day as well

If you had been looking for Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple Kumbabishekam Photos in the internet, here are some of them -

http://www.maduraimeenakshi.org/photo_gallery.php

http://picasaweb.google.com/dhandapani.kb/Meenakshi_Kumbabishekam

http://lovelydeeps.blogspot.com/2009/04/madurai-meenakshi-amman-temple.html

By the way - Chitra/Chithra Thiruvizha/Festival in Madurai is planned to start on April 26th 2009.

Another thing to note in the background is April 27th 2009 is Akshaya Tritiya! When you come to Chitrai Festival, just drop by the jewellery shops in Madurai for your GOLD Shopping and any ICICI bank for Gold Coins:)

Madurai Meenakshi Kumbabishekam leads to 48 sovereigns of gold missing?

Madurai Meenakshi Kumbabishekam leads to 48 sovereigns of gold missing?

As we all know, yesterday was the grand celebration and dharshan of Madurai Meenakshmi Kumbabishekam. However, very few is aware of the thefts relating to the crowd in Madurai.

The Hindu reports in an article(48 sovereigns of gold missing in 48 hours) that - there were 48 sovereigns of gold missing in 48 hours in Madurai. Isn't that telling a message to us?

What is the problem here?

Is it because of too much crowd in Madurai in 2 days - that the size of the district?

Is it because there is unemployment growing in Madurai?

Is it because of destructive lazy people growing or already living in Madurai?

Or to think bad - is it one way of earning for Police?

or is it because the ratio of police to people is too less?

Better Police catches these folks sooner or later!

Madurai Meenakshi Temple Architecture

Madurai Meenakshi Sundareshwarar Temple - Maha Kumbabishegam

Maduraiites,

Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple's MAHAKUMBABISHEGAM to be held on 8th April, 2009. We are the first providing the complete program schedule about this great festival on the Net, in Tamil.

Please visit the exclusive page at this website

- By Madurai Directory Team!
:: Meenakshi Sundareshwarar Temple :: (Temple Office Phone No.2344360)

Madurai Meenakshi Goddess Wedding celebrated in Madurai: Thirukkalyanam: Chithrai Festival

The celestial wedding of Lord Sundareswarar with Goddess Meenakshi in Madurai was celebrated in a grand manner with thousands of pilgrims offering worship to the deities on Friday.

The wedding was part of the 12 day Chithrai festival of the famous Sri Meenakshi temple in Madurai city.

Devotees donated MOII - money for the goddess wedding:)