Chandra turns priest in Kidangarai!

You all must be aware of the effort we took in convincing the villagers to remove the trees which has overgrown on a temple site at Kidangarai Village.

Now that we have convinced the villagers by conducting Devaprasnam, an ancient method of evoking the Gods to know the real status of this temple, the villagers finally consented to do a Vinayaka Pooja and a Go- pooja (Pooja for a cow with calf), it was a daunting task to get a priest who could conduct the pooja there in a remote village. REACH Chandra donned the roll of the priest as he is conversant with such rituals.

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Article in Pudaiya Thalaimurai on temples of South

The Pudiya Thalaimurai magazine covered a cover article on the after effect of Kalahasti and the reporter had an elaborate article covering the trevails of Tamilnadu temples. Our founder Dr. T. Satyamurthy had given a detailed report as well as I (Chandra) shared the centre piece photo) of the cracked lintel stone of Varadaraja Perumal East tower, which is unfortunately not yet repaired, but only white wash (to our eyes?) is going on without mending the cracks.. Also, the claim of the IIT academician does not stand any weight. Negligence and use of cement to further add weight to the already cleaving Gopura is the root cause. The cover picture is of the Perumathur temple which I took while returning from the Chidambaram Symposium.

Please see the link here.

Tekkalur Temple renovation

All heritage enthusiasts and Vishnu bakthas are invited for the Vishnu Temple Samprokshanam (Kumbabhishekam) Consecration ceremony to be conducted on 24th of June 2010. The invitation is here for you all to see. This place is about 12 kilometres from Tiruttani bus stand.

REACH renovated this temple in record 30 days with a budget of just 1.60 lakhs. The committee is celebrating and also adding for for Corpus to maintain the temple and do nithya poojas for another 1.5 lakhs. Members may see the invitation for the details and do the needful.

Update as on July 2010: Please see the consecration ceremony photos HERE

REACH TEAM