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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 ...
Women and girls between 10 and 50 years of age were legally banned from entering Sabarimala from 1991 to 2018. Sabarimala Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shasta, in Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India. [1] Women and girls of reproductive age have traditionally not been permitted to worship there, as Shasta is a celibate deity. [2]
On the day of Makara Jyothi, Ayyappa's idol at the Sabarimala temple is adorned with Thiruvabharanam. After the pilgrim season, the return procession of the Thiruvabharanam starts from Sabarimala and reaches back Pandalam. [citation needed] The Thiruvabharanam procession follows the traditional routes through forests, hills, and rivers.
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 ...
In 1999 and 2011, two major human stampedes occurred on 14 January at Sabarimala, killing 53 and 106 people, respectively. [7] [8] [9] In 1999 the Justice T Chandrasekhara Menon committee that investigated the stampede refrained from going into the details of authenticity of Makara Jyothi. It stated that Makara Jyothi is a matter of belief and ...
The temple is open from 4 am to 11:00 am and 5 pm to 8 pm and is administered by Travancore Devaswom Board of the Government of Kerala. The king of Travancore maintained the golden dress in the temple, offered to Sabarimala Ayyapan Temple. The practise of offering the golden dress to Sabarimala temple annually is done by the board. [7]
[1] [2] Ponnambalamedu is at a height of 1170m and sabarimala is at a height of 544m above mean sea level. The festival includes the Thiruvabharanam (sacred ornaments of the deity Ayyappan) procession and a congregation at the hill shrine of Sabarimala. An estimated half a million devotees flow to Sabarimala every year to view the fire. [3]
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 ...