
MAHA GANAPATHI ABHISHEKAM
ADI SANKARA ABHISHEKAM
SRI SHARADAMBA ABHISHEKAM
SRI CHANDRAMOULISWARA ABHISHEKAM
The devotees who had contributed for the days event performed sankalpa for the kumbhabhishekam event. The new temple has Goddess Sharadamba as it presiding deity along with Chandramouleshwara, Adi Shankaracharya, Lord Mahaganapati, Murugan Swamy and Valli Devi, Bhavani Mata, Hanuman, Navagrahas and Chandekeshwara.
Abhishekam was performed in all sanctums followed by alangaram which would only leave the devotee of coming back again and again for the glimpse of the grandeur and radiating beauty of Sri Sharadamba.
This was followed by mangala aarti and singing of hymns in praise of the lord.
The Nagaswaram tunes playing all through the function and mahurtam set the mood to our traditional festive atmosphere.
All the devotees climbed the nearby hill to get a direct view of all the gopurams and witness the kumbhabhishekam. The administrator of Sringeri Mutt and its properties performed the kumbhabhishekam along with the priests from Sringeri.
A helicopter flew in to shower heavenly blessings in the form of rose petals on our Raja gopurams.
This was surely one of its kinds and a huge surprise for our devotees and was cheered by our bhaktas.
Everyone then assembled inside the temple for felicitating the persons that comprise as part of the temple builders.
Our Stapathis from India come from six generation of stapathis in India. They and their team have toiled a lot for last few months day and night to fulfill the dream of completing building this temple in record time. Sringeri Mutt felicitated both of the main stapathis with a shawl and kanganam for the hard working and toiling hand accompanied with prasadam.
Dr. Yegnasubramanian also felicitated all the temple builders and six local contractors who have gone out of their way each day in realizing our temple dream.
The trustees and the key individuals who shouldered the responsibility of building this temple were also felicitated with prasadams from Sringeri.
The chairman of the temple expressed his special thanks and gratitude to the County persons for being so co-operative and helping them in all possible ways.
He also made a special mention to thank the USCIS and the U.S. Consulate at Chennai for granting visas to 180 priests on the very same day.
Acharyal and Goddess Sharadamba have showered their benign blessings on us for making all this possible in such a short span of time.
Chairman addressed the devotees and told them to regularly come and pay their obeisance at the lotus feet of Goddess Sharadamba and Chandramoulishwara ensuring a prosperous and a fulfilled life.
Temples from all over the US like Shiva Vishnu temple Maryland, Siddhivinayak temple California to name a few and other major Indian temples sent prasadams through their representatives to our temple to mark our Kumbhabhishekam event.
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