{"id":84986,"date":"2020-05-07T15:08:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T09:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15278"},"modified":"2020-05-07T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T09:38:55","slug":"chithirai-festival-at-madurai-meenakshi-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chithirai-festival-at-madurai-meenakshi-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Chithirai festival at Madurai Meenakshi temple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Chithirai festival at the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai has cancelled most of its rituals and ceremonies.But the celestial wedding will be performed in a simple way in the first corridor of the sanctum sanctorum by four priests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Chithirai Festival:<\/strong>It is an annual festival celebrated at Meenakshi Temple in Madurai,Tamil Nadu.<\/li><li>The festival lasts for one month in which the first 15 days marks the celebrations of the coronation of Goddess Meenakshi and the marriage of Lord Sundareswara and Goddess Meenakshi.<\/li><li>The next 15 days mark the celebrations of the Journey of Lord Alagar from Kallazhagar temple in Alagar Kovil to Madurai.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Meenakshi Temple:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Meenakshi-Sundareshwarar temple is dedicated to goddess Meenakshi, the consort of lord Shiva.<\/li><li>It is situated in the ancient city of Madurai built by the Pandyan king, Kulashekarar in the 6th century B.C.&nbsp;<\/li><li>But the reign of the Nayaks marks the golden period of Madurai when art, architecture and learning flourished expansively.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Chithirai festival at the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai has cancelled most of its rituals and ceremonies.But the celestial wedding will be performed in a simple way in the first corridor of the sanctum sanctorum by four priests. Facts: Chithirai Festival:It is an annual festival celebrated at Meenakshi Temple in Madurai,Tamil Nadu. The festival lasts for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chithirai-festival-at-madurai-meenakshi-temple\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chithirai festival at Madurai Meenakshi temple<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2104,2105],"class_list":["post-84986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-chithirai-festival","tag-meenakshi-temple","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}