Sunday, November 23, 2014

Devi Karumariamman Temple - Tiruverkadu



Tiruverkadu is located in Chennai and it is famously known as “Devi Karumariamman” in this temple. The main deity of this temple is Goddess karumariamman. The specialty of this temple is when the pooja is conducted the first one will be performed only to Lord Vinayagar as he has done abishekam to Goddess Karumariamman in holy water using his valampuri and Goddess Karumariamman also requested thirumal to stay in the form of Srinivasan and to protect her devotees who come there and worship the navagraha in this temple. The Lord Srinivasan and Karumariamman are seated together to bless her devotees. The Goddess has also blessed the Sun to give rays twice in a year in the month of Panguni and Purattasi. In this temple Sunday is treated as the auspicious day or Karumariamman where the devotes used to come to this temple and do night stay and perform special pooja and prayer to god. The prasadam given in the main shrine of Karumariamman like vibuthi and Kungumam is considered to be powerful. The important festivals celebrated in this temple is Brahmmotsavam in the Tamil calendar month of Thai the last 3 days are very special as they have theppa utchavam, Thaipoosa and Poornima pooja are conducted for the devotees they have special and free Darshan for the poojas performed in this temple. Masi Magam is very famous as the Goddess is taken to beach to have her bath. The Aadi festival is celebrated in a grand manner as this month is dedicated to Amman. The other festivals celebrated in this temple is Garuda seva, Navaratri festival, and common feast. In this Karumariamman temple auspicious functions like marriage is also conducted in special mandapam. The devotees who visit this temple with faith will be blessed with good life.

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