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The temple is open for worship only during the days of Mandala Pooja (approximately 15 November to 26 December), [8] Makaravilakku or Makara Sankranti (14 January), and Maha Thirumal Sankranti (14 April), and the first five days of each Malayalam month. The Sabarimala Temple serves as a prime example of the amalgamation of several religious ...
The procession is accompanied by thousands of devotees and armed policemen. The procession is warmly welcomed by different associations and temples on the way to Sabarimala and back. [citation needed] [8] The Thiruvabharanam procession takes a traditional route to Sabarimala, covering a distance of 83 km by foot. [9]
The Sabarimala temple, situated on the Western Ghats in Kerala's Pathanamthitta district and is one of India's holiest shrines, which attracts nearly around 50 million visitors each season. [8] As of December 2019, an average of 75,000 pilgrims visit Sabarimala on a daily basis ever since the beginning of the annual pilgrim season in mid ...
The temple is built as an exact replica of the original Ayyappan Temple at Sabarimala in Kerala. The temple was constructed in three floors presumably to lend the feeling of being atop a hill similar to the Sabarimala hill. [3] The architecture follows the Kerala style and tradition with 18 steps to the main shrine and the sanctum sanctorum.
When Sabarimala was opened for pilgrims in October 2018 for the first time since the Supreme Court verdict, protests were immediately staged at nearby Nilakkal and Pamba, both considered to be basecamps for pilgrims on their way to the temple. Many women journalists who had come to report on the opening were assaulted by the protesters.
The distance from Ranni to Sabarimala is 60 kilometers. A motorable road is built from Ranni to Pampa, valley of Sabarimala hills. Sabarimala Sree Dharmasastha Temple, [2] Malikappuram Temple are situated in one side of this hills. [3] [4] Sabarimala is a part of periyar tiger reserve and Western ghats. The height of Sabarimala from mean sea ...
The Ready To Wait campaign is a social movement initiated in September 2016 by a group of female devotees of Hindu deity Ayyappan, [1] as a response to a petition filed in the Supreme Court by women's groups to demand the right to enter the Sabarimala temple, located in the southern Indian state of Kerala, which traditionally restricts entry of women of reproductive age (10 to 50 yrs).
Thazhamon Madom is the family of the tantris of Sabarimala. The members of this madom are the head priests of Sabarimala temple for many years. This madom is in Mundencavu in Chengannur of central Kerala. The Padi Pooja, Udayasthamana Pooja and Kalasa Poojas cannot be conducted unless the Tantri is present during the ceremony. The tantri, or ...