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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.
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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."
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South Indian style temple iconography A yantra, with the Aum (Om) in center of yantra Sri Mariamman Temple: Date: 30 August 2011, 20:53: Source: スリ・マリアマン寺院 Sri Mariamman Temple: Author: Tomoaki INABA from Ibaraki, Japan
The present gopuram of the Sri Mariamman Temple was built in 1925, replacing an earlier tower. Although the temple was founded as an institution on its present site by Pillai in 1827, little remains of the original structure he built.
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.
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