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.

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 City Planning is praised - concentric square design

"Good city form" is a book by Kevin Lynch and it was published by MIT Press, 1984.
He writes and praises Madurai City Architecture.

"The Indian theorists, while they may have influenced fewer actual towns, were even more explicit in the connections they made between gods, men, rites and city plans. There was a series of texts on city planning, the Silpasastras which indicated how the eath could be parceled out and the evil forces of chaos enclosed and controlled. The typical form was a mandala, a set of enclosing rings divided into squares, in which the most powerful point is at the center. Enclosure and protection point is at the center. Enclosure and protection reinforces holiness, and the key movements are from the outside in, or circling the sacred enclosure in a clockwise direction. The earth is sacred and safe to inhabit, once these rites and spatial divisions are accomplished.

The yearly religious processions follow the same encircling routes and residents organize the city in their minds in the same way. Madurai in India is a stiking example of this model in which even today the city shape, the temples, the rites, the mental images of residents, the locations of activities, the main roads and even the bus routes are all matched to this symbolic form."

Madurai Machan commenting - Only issue with it is the roads are smaller. However with bridges this issue can be solved, I believe. Architects would know better...

Madurai Meenakshi Temple Architecture

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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