Shakti Peethas
The history of the temple is inscribed in the form of paintings on the temple wall. Every Sunday, Monday, Friday and on new moon days, we can find lot of devotees at this temple, in order to offer their whole heartedly prayers to Ma Bannari Mariamman.
Kundam Festival is grandly celebrated in the Tamil Month of Panguni (March – April). This is the most famous annual festival, wherein lakhs of devotees from various parts of Tamil Nadu would visit this Mahamariamman Temple.
The temple is kept open to the public from 5.30 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.
Women devotees used to participate in the Thiruvilakku pooja, which is being done for the well-being of their consorts on the last Friday of every Tamil month.
The great divine mother, Ma Shakti Devi is frequently sending her divine aspects to the earth, in order to protect and preserve her devotees. She knows very well, that at this present Kaliyuga, people would suffer from lot of problems in their lives. Hence, in order to give at least some sort of relief to them, she is taking her abode in various parts of India. She has temples even in abroad. Shakti Devi is our divine mother, who takes much care than that of our own mother. Even if our own mother forgets us, but, she would never forget us, but would give her support permanently.
It is the duty of the Hindus to protect and preserve our ancient Hindu temples including Ma Shakti Devi Temples, by considering the temples as our own living places. We can also help a lot towards repairing and renovating ancient Hindu temples, to avoid its destruction. As per an ancient Tamil proverb, “Only if you take care of the Temples, your life would be taken care of by the deities. If you ignore them, then they also would simply ignore you, and thereafter your life would become a failure”.
Hence let us come forward to donate large sums of money towards maintenance of our ancient Hindu temples, and let us also help the poor temple priests, by donating sufficient money to them.