Chappal stand in Perumal Kovil koil temple Madurai koodal azhagar

I recently went to koodal azhagar Perumal koil temple in Madurai and I was asked for payment for three chappal pairs as 3 rupees. This is usually free and we do not have to pay. However we opt for giving some tips as such for taking and servicing out chappals. Can we make it mandatory not to ask the general public? I knew that it is free, hence I am telling this, but the general public and foreigners should not be disturbed on this? Can the contract holders be careful about it and make sure their employees are trained about not to ask any payment for the chappal stand?

My Visit to Thousand Pillar Mandapam

Last weekend, I and my family visited The Thousand Pillars Mandapam, after our Meenakshi Temple visit.

The hall with 1000 pillars can be seen when one enters the temple from the eastern entrance. Today there are only 985 pillars in the hall. One will also be able to see the musical pillars in the temple. One will be able to see in front of the mandapam, the history that covers about 1200 years in the form of icons, photographs and drawings and sculptures.

Today it is coined as a museum and it is promoted nicely. The pillars Mandapam looks very neat and the architecture is amazing. It is been a while I went to this mandapam and I was surprised to see the same.

Very old sculptures are lined up and well lighted inside. A very nominal entry fee of Rs.5 for adults and Rs.2 for children.

Very nice effort for tourism is made to this temple.

Don't miss to visit this 1000 Pillars Mandapam in Madurai Meenakshi Temple. Also my wife ended up shopping heavily near this mandapam for the bangles, god pictures etc.,:):) No worries!!:))

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.

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.

Temples in Tamil Nadu Strike - Madurai Temple Strike today

Employees of temples governed by the Hindu Religious and Charitable endowment Board today observed a "sit-in" strike, demanding implementation of the sixth pay commission recommendations and pay parity with Government employees.

As a result, ticket sales at the Meenakshi temple and Sri Murugan temple at Tiruparankunram, Palani, Tiruchendur, Srivilliputhur, Alagarcoil and Ramanathaswamy temple at Rameswaram, Srirangam Ranganathaswamy temple, Sri Mariamman temple at Samayapuram and all the other major temples was partially paralysed, officials said.

Though there were some inconveniences, the problem is resolved and the pay commission is accepted!

Inaugural Chennai-Madurai Flight Lands at Madurai

-PTI

The inaugural flight of the Chennai-Madurai Spicejet landed in Madurai on Monday with about 150 passengers onboard.

The first flight of the low-cost airliner, promoted by Sun TV Network promoter Kalanithi Maran, was accorded a water gun salute at the airport in Madurai.

The city has become the 20th destination of the carrier in India.

Madurai holds an important place in the tourism map of Tamil Nadu with its famous heritage Meenakshi Amman temple and proximity to the hill retreat of Kodaikanal.

Madurai Chithra Festival - Chithirai Thiruvizha

Madurai Chithrai Thiruvizha is being celebrated is a grand manner and in a much better way than in the past.

Things are well organized and I personally went and saw most of the functions. Every day there is a special function.

I will write more about it shortly.

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 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:)

Madurai Goddess Meenakshi Wedding - Live Webcast at maduraimeenakshi.org - Web Telecast - Chitra/Chithirai - Chithra Festival - Chithra Thiruvizha

The celestial Wedding of Goddess Meenakshi with Lord Sundareswarar at the famous Sri Meenakshi temple in Madurai will be telecast live on the internet on April 18, temple officials said.

Devotees can log on to www.maduraimeenakshi.org website to watch the event, Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Temple T.Kannan and the Executive Officer B.Raja said.

They told newsmen at Madurai that the 12-day festival would begin on April l9 and Pattabhishekam(Coronation)would be held on April 16 followed by Dhigvijayam (Deities visiting the city)on April 17. The Car festival would be held on April 19.

A temple feast would be organised when about 50,000 devotees would be provided free feast on the wedding day.

Since the four 'Chitrai' streets were in a bad shape,the Corporation authorities had been requested to repair them for the festival.

The wedding programme would be telecast live using LCD projectors in two big screens in the temple. Besides 40 TV sets would be installed at different points in the temple to enable people to see the function, they said.

sourcing from newstodaynet/thatstamil/hindu/indianexpress

Chithra Festival Live from Madurai

This is a very famous festival in Madurai - Could be called Chithirai, Chithra, Chitra festival - which includes marriage of gods - in other words Madurai Meenakshi Thirukkalyanam.

Now it comes live and it is sponsored by Winways Systems Private Limited.,



The celestial wedding of the Goddess and the Lord which will be solemnized between the auspicious hours of 8.26 am and 8.50 am on Tuesday at the special wedding hall of the temple, which had been colourfully decorated with a variety of blossoms.

This is a unique ritual which is attended by thousands of devotees from all over the State of Tamil Nadu. The temple authorities have made special arrangements to enable the devotees of the deities the world over, to watch the proceedings alive through internet. The facility is being sponsored by Winways Systems Private Ltd., Madurai. Devotees world over, could watch this colourful climax of the festival by logging on to www.maduraimeenakshi.org from 7.30am IST.

Read More in Madurai Meenakshi dot ORG

Updated ----08th April 2008
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