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

Devotees can log on to www.maduraimeenakshi.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 Madurai 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.

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