{"id":13416,"date":"2014-03-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/03\/27\/madurai-s-meenakshi-temple-re-dedicates-east-gopuram-in-large-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T12:00:00","slug":"madurai-s-meenakshi-temple-re-dedicates-east-gopuram-in-large-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/03\/27\/madurai-s-meenakshi-temple-re-dedicates-east-gopuram-in-large-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Madurai&#8217;s Meenakshi Temple Re-Dedicates East Gopuram in Large Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Madurai\/devotees-witness-kumbabishekam-of-east-gopuram-of-meenakshi-temple\/article5808928.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MADURAI, INDIA, March 24, 2013 (The Hindu): Thousands of devotees witnessed the kumbabishekam of Sri Thirumarainathar Temple in Tiruvathavur, performed after a gap of 14 years, on Wednesday. The Sri Thirumarainathar Temple, which is more than 1,600 years old, is one of the sub-temples of Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple.<\/p>\n<p>The temple was renovated ahead of the kumbabishekam at a cost of about US$165,000, said P. Jayaraman, Joint Commissioner, Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR and CE) Department and Executive Officer of Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple here.<\/p>\n<p>About 120 sivachariyars performed special pujas at the grand yagasala, specially constructed for the kumbabishekam, from Sunday evening to Wednesday morning. &#8220;The special pujas at the yagasala concluded at 10.15 a.m. on Wednesday. Following this, pujas were performed on the vimanas of the Deities &#8211; Lord Thirumarainathar, Goddess Vedanayaki Amman and Manickavasagar,&#8221; Mr.Jayaraman said. Abishekams to the deities and deeparadhana followed the pujas.<\/p>\n<p>The temple is located at the birthplace of Manickavasagar, who wrote Thiruvasagam, a book of Shaiva hymns. The temple was adorned with floral decorations for the occasion and after the kumbabishekam, blessed food was provided to the devotees, Mr.Jayaraman added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source MADURAI, INDIA, March 24, 2013 (The Hindu): Thousands of devotees witnessed the kumbabishekam of Sri Thirumarainathar Temple in Tiruvathavur,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}