reader Posted October 5, 2022 Posted October 5, 2022 The annual Hindu Navaratri festival and parade will take place tonight on lower Silom rd. Anticipate unusually heavy traffic in the Silom-Sathorn-Surawong area between 6pm and Midnight. Sri Maha Mariamman (also called Wat Prasri Maha Umathewee) is the main Hindu temple in Bangkok. It is located across the street from Silom Soi 20. It is hard to miss since it is a towering Dravidian style temple. It is free to enter and those who have come to sightsee are just as welcome as those Hindus who wish to attend a puja. The temple was built by Vaithi Padayatchi, a Tamil immigrant to Bangkok in the late Nineteenth Century. The main temple building is dedicated to the worship of the goddess Mariamman. For those interested, the temple was built by a Shakti sect that revers ‘the mother of the God’; somewhat similar to the Catholic obsession to Mary, the mother of Jesus. vinapu, Ryanqqq, VancBCMan and 1 other 2 2 Quote
vinapu Posted October 5, 2022 Posted October 5, 2022 8 hours ago, reader said: .... ‘the mother of the God’; somewhat similar to the Catholic obsession to Mary, the mother of Jesus. I'd rather say 'devotion" Mavica and reader 1 1 Quote
