Saturday, March 28, 2009

World huge Buddha Temple


Borobudur was created through the eighth century as a direct to the Noble pathway of the Buddha. Borobudur is World biggest temple of Buddha. Born from quiet and unfolding into the peacefulness of the other shore, it states the beauty of Indonesia’s wakefulness and originality,

However the western world revived this glorious construction about 200 years before this sacred place however stays placed in its mysterious depth.

Borobudur is one of the most popular tourist spot in the Island of Java, Indonesia.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Mamallapuram "Beach Temple"


Mamallapuram also known as Mahabalipuram. Worldwide renowned for its beach temples, Mamallapuram was the endorsement great of the Pallava kings of Kanchipuram. 37 miles from chennai on the Bay of Bengal, this tiny sea - face settlement of Mamallapuram, is set in a town - strewn landscape. Tourists are tense to this guess by its miles of incorrupt beach and rock-cut art. The forge, here, is specially stimulating because it shows scenes of day-to- day spiritedness, in opposition with the place of the refer of Tamil Nadu, where the carvings normally render gods and goddesses

The temples of Mahabalipuram, collective mostly during the reigns of Narasimhavarman and his peer Rajasimhavarman, container the occurrence from rock-cut structure to structural construction. The mandapas or exhibition areas and the rathas or shrines shaped as temple chariots are cut from the granite lurch meet, piece the famous Get Temple, erected half of a century afterwards, is shapely from clothed what makes Mamallapuram so culturally rolling are the powers it absorbs and disseminates.

There are, or pretty were, two short mounts in Mamallapuram, high 400m from the sea. In the big one, on both faces, there are cardinal excavated temples, titled Mandapas, two "afford air bas relief", one of which is rough, and a tierce boxed one. Out of a big candy slack disengage nearby there is a "cut out" temple, titled a "Ratha". This identify is un comparable to Mamallapuram.

Out of the other mount, often smaller and slack nearly 200m to the southwestern, are fashioned fin solon rathas, and three large figures of a Nandi, a Loin and a Elephant. On the top of the large mount there is a structural temple, and a soft size the magnificent beginnings of a Vijayanagar Gopura.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Annai "Velankanni" Church



The little city of Annai Velankanni situated on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. It is situated 350 km south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu and 14 km south of Nagapattinam. Our lady chose this place to give out her miracles to humanity. A burly verbal custom attests to Our lady’s spirit at annai Velankanni.

The Roman Catholic Church has a comprehensive church, which has the two floors where solitary can discovers the statue of Christ Jesus. The Gothic method of structural design is an unique quality of the Church.

A museum is located opposite to the church. The museum has an extremely wealthy variety of exhibits. The valuable offerings through the devotees are also on present here. Biblical events are depicted on both sidewalls with wonderfully fashioned friezes. The annual festival is celebrated on August 29th all the year.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Tirupati "Venkatachalapathy"


The ancient and consecrated temple of Sri Venkateswara is settled on the seventh limitation, Venkatachala (Venkata Comedian) of the Tirupati hill, and lies on the gray banks of Sri Swami Pushkarini.It is by the god's tenure over Venkatachala, that He has received the name, Venkateswara (God of the Thirumala). He is also titled the god of the Seven Hills.

There is sizable literary and epigraphic instrument to the oldness of the temple of god Sri Venkateswara. All the outstanding dynasties of rulers of the confederate peninsula love salaried homage to Baronage Sri Venkateswara in this ancient shrine. The Pallavas of Kancheepuram (9th century AD), the Cholas of Thanjavur (a century afterward), the Pandyas of Madurai, and the kings and chieftains of Vijayanagar (14th - 15th century AD) were devotees of the Lord and they competed with each other in endowing the temple with colourful offerings and contributions.


Everyday is a day of recreation at Thirumala. The most famous is the period festival called 'Brahmotsavam', which is illustrious on pianoforte hit for nine days in Sept, attracting pilgrims and tourists from all parts of the land. The fifth and ordinal life of the fetes are especially earthshaking in as such as Garudostavam and Rathotavam takes set on those life.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Tiruchy "Uchi Pillaiyar"



Thruchi Uchi Pillayar Temple is situated in store Tamil Nadu in India, on the botanist of the Cauvery river. It is 303 km from Chennai and 150 km from Madurai. It was a Chola immovableness during the Sangam Age and was also shortly ruled by the Pallavas and the Pandyas. Today, Tiruchy is an immingle of chronicle, a colonist pertains and a thriving moneymaking municipality.

The municipality of Pillaiyarpatti is named after 'Pillayar' - the tongue attach for Ganesha, and this ancient koil houses block cut images of Shibah, Lingodbhavar and others as happy as various word shrines. Steeped in the drill of Parthenogenetic textsthe koil bears papers to the vibrant koil association of the Dravidic grouping, historic pile over centuries.

This representation of Ganesha is equal to be confidential to any one of Tamil god; yet, less is known to numerous roughly the fact that this is a somebody of the stuff cut Karpaka Vinayakar Contain at Pillayarpatti intimate Karaikkudi at one of the oldest Subvert Temples (Substance Cut) temples of Tamilnadu.

Monday, March 9, 2009