11-07-2003, 03:00 AM
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KOLLAM: A Guruvayurappan temple will be constructed soon in Chicago, US-based R K Foundation chairman Radhakrishnan Nair told a news conference here on Thursday.
Forty acres of land has been acquired in the heart of Chicago city for the proposed temple. Besides the temple, the complex will contain a pond, a banquet hall, an auditorium and accommodation facilities for the devotees.
The government has given its sanction for the construction of the temple. The project will be completed at a cost of Rs 40 crore. The R K Foundation will bear the cost of construction.
All poojas, including Vaakachaarth and Seeveli Ezhunnallathu will be performed in the tradition being followed at the Sreekrishna Temple at Guruvayur. The temple pooja system will be fixed according to the instructions given by Guruvayur Tantri Kesavan Namboodiri. All the Tantris of the temple will be Malayalees.
Radhakrishnan Nair said that the construction of the temple would be the realisation of a dream of the devotees of Lord Guruvayurappan and the westerners who had visited the Sreekrishna temple at Guruvayur.
There were several temples dedicated to Lord Venkateswara, Lord Ram and Lord Satya Narayana in the US. But the proposed temple at Chicago will be the first Guruvayoorappan temple there, he said.
There are only around 1000 Hindus in the 30,000-odd Malayalee population in the Illinois State. But all people were cooperating with the venture, he said.
Radhakrishnan Nair, native of Ettumannur and nephew of the late Karoor Neelakanda Pillai, is living in the US for the last 32 years. He is one of the leading businessman there. His wife is a medical practitioner. He founded the R K Foundation for charitable work.
The Foundation will sponsor the silver jubilee conference of AKMG, the organisation of the Malayalee doctors working in the US. The conference is scheduled to be held in July next year. Several Malayalam movie artists and experts would participate in it. The Foundation will donate the income from the conference for computerising the laboratories at the Medical Colleges in the State, Nair said.
Foundation Trustee and former KMML managing director P S Nair was also present at the news conference.
KOLLAM: A Guruvayurappan temple will be constructed soon in Chicago, US-based R K Foundation chairman Radhakrishnan Nair told a news conference here on Thursday.
Forty acres of land has been acquired in the heart of Chicago city for the proposed temple. Besides the temple, the complex will contain a pond, a banquet hall, an auditorium and accommodation facilities for the devotees.
The government has given its sanction for the construction of the temple. The project will be completed at a cost of Rs 40 crore. The R K Foundation will bear the cost of construction.
All poojas, including Vaakachaarth and Seeveli Ezhunnallathu will be performed in the tradition being followed at the Sreekrishna Temple at Guruvayur. The temple pooja system will be fixed according to the instructions given by Guruvayur Tantri Kesavan Namboodiri. All the Tantris of the temple will be Malayalees.
Radhakrishnan Nair said that the construction of the temple would be the realisation of a dream of the devotees of Lord Guruvayurappan and the westerners who had visited the Sreekrishna temple at Guruvayur.
There were several temples dedicated to Lord Venkateswara, Lord Ram and Lord Satya Narayana in the US. But the proposed temple at Chicago will be the first Guruvayoorappan temple there, he said.
There are only around 1000 Hindus in the 30,000-odd Malayalee population in the Illinois State. But all people were cooperating with the venture, he said.
Radhakrishnan Nair, native of Ettumannur and nephew of the late Karoor Neelakanda Pillai, is living in the US for the last 32 years. He is one of the leading businessman there. His wife is a medical practitioner. He founded the R K Foundation for charitable work.
The Foundation will sponsor the silver jubilee conference of AKMG, the organisation of the Malayalee doctors working in the US. The conference is scheduled to be held in July next year. Several Malayalam movie artists and experts would participate in it. The Foundation will donate the income from the conference for computerising the laboratories at the Medical Colleges in the State, Nair said.
Foundation Trustee and former KMML managing director P S Nair was also present at the news conference.