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Sri Mariamman Temple is managed by the Hindu Endowments Board, a statutory board under the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports. The Sri Mariamman Temple was founded in 1827 by Naraina Pillai, eight years after the East India Company established a trading settlement in Singapore.
Garbhagraham] of the temple where Sri Maha Mariamman idol is enshrined. This Temple resembles the form of a human body lying on its back with the head positioned towards the west and the feet towards the east. The temple's 5-tiered gopuram corresponds to the feet of the body. It is the threshold between the material and spiritual world.
The legacy of Mariamman is well spread beyond Tamil Nadu and even after centuries of emigrating from India, many people in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa and Fiji still maintain their loyalties to the temple and try to create similar shrines in their new country, raising both a cause of concern and an appreciation of diversity.
English: A stone inscribed with details of the Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore, founding. In English it reads: "The grant No: 078 With its Building Transferred for Charity Sake to Cothunda Ramasamy [sp] by Sasbasala Pillay [sp] son of Duddalore Amoarapootra Pillay [sp] Singapore: March 1831."
The Arulmigu Sri Mahamariamman Temple is a Hindu temple within George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang. The oldest Hindu temple in the state, it was built in 1833, and features sculptures of gods and goddesses over its main entrance and facade. [1] It is also known as Mariamman Temple or Queen Street Indian Temple.
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The temple shares the same architecture as other Hindu temples in South India and Sri Lanka, unlike several other Hindu temple in other part of Indonesia that conforms to the Javanese or Balinese-style. The Sri Mariamman temple was inaugurated its use for Hindu Dharma on October 23, 1991, by the ex-Governor of North Sumatra H. Raja Inal Siregar.
Temples dedicated to Hindu Goddess Mariamman. Sri Samayapuram Mariamman Temple, Srirangapattana. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S.