Holy Week at churches: Maundy Thursday services held
The crucial part of Holy Week at local churches began with Maundy/Holy Thursday services on March 29 evening. The symbolic washing of the feet act was followed in churches in …
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Choir renders Passiontide music at St. Thomas English Church
Choristers, young and senior, presented an evening of Passiontide music on Palm Sunday, March 24 evening at CSI St. Thomas English Church. Led and accompanied by Anila Manoharan, the choir …
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This Palm Sunday procession had teens enacting Biblical scenes on carts. In Mandaveli
This is a Lenten practice which the community at CSI St. Luke’s Church in Mandaveli observes on Palm Sunday. They take out a procession where some teens in costumes and …
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Communities at three San Thome churches take out ecumenical Palm Sunday procession
The community at three San Thome churches got together on Sunday, March 24 for a ecumenical Palm Sunday procession. The congregations of three local area churches – of San Thome …
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Panguni festival 2024: large crowds participate in arabathumoovar procession. Temple zone remains crowded past 10 p.m.
All around the Sri Kapali Temple, there may be signs of chaos and crowds but inside, everything about the Panguni festival runs clockwork despite a few hiccups. Take the day …
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Panguni festival 2024: ther procession draws huge crowd
By all accounts, Friday’s ther procession drew perhaps the largest crowds in recent years of the Panguni festival of Sri Kapali Temple in Mylapore. If there were at least 3000 …
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Panguni festival 2024: four Mylaporeans share their 1980s memories
Four senior Mylaporeans took time off last week to share with Mylapore Times, their memories of the Panguni festival of the 1970s and 80s. Sundari Krishnamoorthy, lived for decades in …
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Panguni festival 2024: when teachers and students of Lady Sivaswami School made their offerings
March 20 morning. Sunshine morning. The Sannidhi Street zone slowly fills up with people who make it a point to attend every procession of the Panguni fest at Sri Kapali …
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Panguni festival 2024: women design lovely kolams, hawkers use veggies to create Rangolis
The Panguni festival brings to life Sri Kapali Temple at least twice every day. Mornings and late evenings. Abnd each part of the day presents differing pictures inside and around …
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Ecumenical Palm Sunday procession will be taken out in San Thome this Sunday
A ecumenical Palm Sunday procession will be taken out in San Thome this Sunday. The congregations of three local area churches – of San Thome Basilica, the CSI St. Thomas …
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This church choir will present Passiontide music on March 24
The Choir of CSI St. Thomas English Church in San Thome will be presenting an evening of Passiontide music on Sunday, March 24 at 6.00 pm in the 181-year-old church. …
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Panguni festival 2024: procession of the gods on the silver Adhikara Nandi vahanam
It was a Monday morning. The start of a work-week. And yet, there were a few thousand people inside and around Sri Kapali Temple as the Adhikara Nandi vahanam procession …
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