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Vivekananda Rock Memorial is a monument and popular tourist attraction in Kanyakumari, ... It was built in 1970 in honour of Swami Vivekananda, ...
Vivekananda Rock Memorial. The Kanyakumari resolve of 1892 was the resolution taken by Indian Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda to dedicate himself for the service and the welfare of people. In 1970 Vivekananda Rock Memorial was founded at the place where Vivekananda took this resolution.
Ferry service are available from the mainland. The ferry service to Vivekananda Rock Memorial stops for a while at the Valluvar Statue. There is also a pedestrian bridge made of fiber glass, connecting it to the mainland. This bridge is the first of its kind to be built in India, and was built by Government of Tamil Nadu and opened on 31.12. ...
Vivekananda Rock Memorial. The Vivekananda Rock Memorial is a popular tourist monument in Vavathurai, Kanyakumari, India. The memorial stands on one of two rocks in the Laccadive Sea, located about 500 metres (1,600 ft) east of the mainland of Vavathurai. It was built in 1970 in honour of Swami Vivekananda who is said to have attained ...
Kanyakumari Glass bridge or Kanyakumari Glass fibre footover bridge is an footover bridge built for pedestrians to cross the sea connecting Vivekananda Rock Memorial and Thiruvalluvar Statue both constructed on sea in Kanyakumari of Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu, India. [1] This is said to be the India's first glass bridge built on sea. [2]
Ranade was the organising secretary of Vivekananda Rock Memorial committee. The teachings of Vivekananda deeply influenced Ranade. In 1963, during the centenary year of Vivekananda's birth, he published a selection of Vivekananda's writing under the title Rousing Call to Hindu Nation, as a personal tribute. [3]
Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck. Researchers date the find to either the fifth or sixth century B.C. Six ...
The Vivekananda Rock Memorial was constructed in 1970 [75] in the memory of Swami Vivekananda. It is located on an island near Kanyakumari next to the Thiruvalluvar Statue. Eknath Ranade, a social activist who was influenced by the teachings of Swami Vivekananda, played a crucial role in the construction of the memorial.