{"id":53958,"date":"2025-07-08T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=53958"},"modified":"2025-07-08T16:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:47:51","slug":"tiruchendur-subramanya-swamy-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tiruchendur-subramanya-swamy-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiruchendur Subramanya Swamy Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Tiruchendur Subramanya Swamy Temple Latest News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thousands of devotees recently witnessed the grand consecration of the Subramanya Swamy temple in Tiruchendur, held after a gap of 16 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Tiruchendur Subramanya Swamy Temple<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>Hindu temple<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dedicated to<\/span><b> Lord Murugan (Son of Lord Shiva<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Goddess Parvati).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in <\/span><b>Tiruchendur<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Thoothukudi District, <\/span><b>Tamil Nadu.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>one of the six sacred abodes of Lord Murugan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is the <\/span><b>only one along the seashore.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The other five temples are situated on mountains.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The temple <\/span><b>faces the Bay of Bengal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is washed by the sea waves from the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gulf-of-mannar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf of Mannar<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having <\/span><b>stood for over 2 millennia,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the temple is a splendid example of <\/span><b>Tamil architecture.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The temple is constructed with <\/span><b>red sandstone <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and presents a panoramic view of the sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>RajaGopuram (temple tower)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is built on the <\/span><b>western side<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the temple, <\/span><b>unlike other temples where the RajaGopuram is erected on the eastern side<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the reason being that the sea is very close to the eastern side.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gopuram is nine-tier that is 138 feet high. The <\/span><b>sanctum sanctorum<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the temple has <\/span><b>Lord Subramanyam in a standing posture.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are <\/span><b>nine Kalasams (sacred copper pots) atop the Gopuram<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to indicate that the Gopuram consists of 9 storeys.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The temple also boasts of many other stunning architectural features, like huge mandapams (halls), long streets, majestically carved pillars, and a number of small shrines. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/thousands-witness-grand-consecration-of-tiruchendur-subramanya-swamy-temple-after-16-years\/article69782140.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiruchendur Subramanya Swamy Temple, located in Tiruchendur, Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu, is a famous coastal temple dedicated to Lord Muruga. Read more about Tiruchendur Subramanya Swamy Temple, History, Location, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":53949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,1402,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-53958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-tiruchendur-subramanya-wasmy-temple","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}