{"id":22208,"date":"2025-06-30T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=22208"},"modified":"2025-06-30T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:27:10","slug":"watch-this-chennai-temple-is-being-lifted-to-road-level-to-allow-easier-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2025\/06\/30\/watch-this-chennai-temple-is-being-lifted-to-road-level-to-allow-easier-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: This Chennai Temple Is Being Lifted to Road Level to Allow Easier Access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, June 30, 2025 (The Hindu): For years, devotees entering Chennai\u2019s Madhya Kailash Temple had to climb down eight steps to pray \u2014 not because of design, but because the road level was raised. That\u2019s about to change. Now, twelve structures, including the temple\u2019s raja gopuram and sanctum sanctorums, are being carefully lifted by over seven feet. The temple\u2019s thick, three-foot-wide granite walls are being jacked up row by row and engineers are adding a cement concrete beam below the structure to prevent it from sinking or tilting. Mamchand House Uplifting Pvt. Ltd are in charge of the construction. Built with the guidance of Maha Periyava Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati, the temple hosts over 13,000 shraddha rituals every year \u2014 with Lord Ganesha Himself believed to preside over these offerings to one&#8217;s ancestors.<br><br>Very nice video at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/videos\/watch-this-chennai-temple-is-being-lifted-to-road-level-to-allow-easier-access\/article69754636.ece\n\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/videos\/watch-this-chennai-temple-is-being-lifted-to-road-level-to-allow-easier-access\/article69754636.ece<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, June 30, 2025 (The Hindu): For years, devotees entering Chennai\u2019s Madhya Kailash Temple had to climb down eight,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22214,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208\/revisions\/22214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}