Singapore President visits Coimbatore Meenakshi Temple

Singapore President visits Coimbatore Meenakshi Temple

Coimbatore, 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 - Coimbatore 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-Coimbatore Flight Lands at Coimbatore

-PTI

The inaugural flight of the Chennai-Coimbatore Spicejet landed in Coimbatore 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 Coimbatore.

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

Coimbatore 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.

Coimbatore Chithra Festival - Chithirai Thiruvizha

Coimbatore 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 Coimbatore Meenakshi Amman Temple

Around 250 buildings are ordered to be demolished around Coimbatore 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 Coimbatore 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 coimbatore mani!

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

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

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

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

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

By the way - Chitra/Chithra Thiruvizha/Festival in Coimbatore 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 Coimbatore for your GOLD Shopping and any ICICI bank for Gold Coins:)

Coimbatore Meenakshi Temple Architecture

Coimbatore Meenakshi Sundareshwarar Temple - Maha Kumbabishegam

Coimbatoreites,

Coimbatore 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 Coimbatore Directory Team!
:: Meenakshi Sundareshwarar Temple :: (Temple Office Phone No.2344360)

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

The celestial wedding of Lord Sundareswarar with Goddess Meenakshi in Coimbatore 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 Coimbatore city.

Devotees donated MOII - money for the goddess wedding:)

Coimbatore Goddess Meenakshi Wedding - Live Webcast at coimbatoremeenakshi.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 Coimbatore will be telecast live on the internet on April 18, temple officials said.

Devotees can log on to www.coimbatoremeenakshi.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 Coimbatore 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 Coimbatore

This is a very famous festival in Coimbatore - Could be called Chithirai, Chithra, Chitra festival - which includes marriage of gods - in other words Coimbatore 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., Coimbatore. Devotees world over, could watch this colourful climax of the festival by logging on to www.coimbatoremeenakshi.org from 7.30am IST.

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Updated ----08th April 2008
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