The world’s tallest statue of Lord Murugan was unveiled at Puthiragoundampalayam in Tamil Nadu’s Salem district. The height of the statue is 146-feet and it was opened for the devotees to perform Kumbhabhishek.
Built by a trust at Puthiragoundanapalayam, this statue is taller than the Pathumalai Murugan statue in Malaysia, which has a height of 140 feet.
As soon as the idol was consecrated in Salem, rose petals were showered on it from a helicopter. Abhishek witnessed thousands of devotees throng the temple premises to offer prayers and attend the puja ceremony.
Apparently, it was Malaysia’s Murugan statue that inspired the construction of one in Salem. The chairman of the Sri Muthumalai Murugan Trust, N Sridhar wanted to build the tallest statue of Murugan in his hometown of Attur.
Reportedly, Sridhar thought that not everyone could go to Malaysia and worship the deity there, so he would have to bring one to Salem district. Later in 2014, Sridhar, who is also a businessman, decided to build a temple and an idol of Muthumalai Murugan on his land.
Sridhar also hired the sculptor Thiruvarur Thiagarajan to construct the idol. Interestingly, he was the same sculptor who built the Murugan statue in Malaysia in 2006. It took almost two years for Sridhar to start the process of building the statue.
Meanwhile, in Malaysia the idol of Lord Murugan is located in the Batu Caves and is one of the most popular Hindu temples outside India. It is the tallest Hindu statue in Malaysia and took three years to be built by the sculptors. 350 tons of steel bars, 300 liters of gold paint and 1,550 cubic meters were required to build this amazing structure. In addition, 15 sculptors were brought from India to carve the idol.
It has been painted gold and is made of reinforced concrete. It stands next to a flight of 272 stairs that lead visitors to the Batu Caves. It is believed that the cave was not a place of worship before an Indian merchant named K Thambusamy Pillai placed a small idol of Lord Murugan in 1892.
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