20,000 Hindus Expected To Attend Temple Ceremony In Malaysia

Source: www.hindustantimes.com
Tuesday,May 18,2010

(Sri Mahamariamman Temple, Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia)

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA : More than 20,000 Hindus are expected to attend the consecration ceremony of Sri Maha Mariam man Temple in Malaysia. The 105-year-old temple in Puchong, a suburb, is being reconstructed at a cost of more than US$885,000.

Temple chairman A. Sevaguru said preparations were being undertaken to ensure the temple would be ready by May 23. He said the temple’s steeple was 70-foot tall and devotees could see it from within the temple through a glass ceiling. Sevaguru said there would be six prayer sessions for the devotees to place gold and silver rice in the inner sanctum and an anointment ceremony would be a rare opportunity accorded to devotees. The temple was originally set up by South Indian contract laborers brought here by the British in 1905.

Hindu Temple In Malaysia Adopts School

Source: www.thaindian.com
Wed,March10,2010

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, March 3, 2010: Arulmigu Veera Muniswarar temple committee in Gunung Hijau, Batu Gajah, Perak state, has adopted a Tamil school. Students will be provided with textbooks and school material, and the committee will help with transport for the poor pupils, committee adviser R. Damodaran said.

Malaysia Namban newspaper urged other temple committees to emulate this as many Tamil schools and their parent-teacher associations were facing problems.

Malaysia is home to nearly two million people of Indian origin, a bulk of whom are Tamils who settled here during the British era.