{"id":38,"date":"2018-08-20T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T11:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2019-08-07T05:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T05:12:18","slug":"temple-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/index.php\/temple-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About our old\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Temple<\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">The original Rama<\/span>layam was built more than 90 years ago in Lankala Kalavagunta village in Pedana Mandal, Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh. Local families visited the alayam for daily puja and festivals. Sri Rama Navami festival was celebrated with great enthusiasm and devotion and became an annual tradition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/O2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/O1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over time, Ramalyam deteriorated as it was situated very adjacent to the main road and as the main road level of the village was raised time to time with new layers and the mandapam floor level become much lower than the adjacent road level. Ramalyam mandapam was frequently submerged by rain water. It was decided to build Ramalayam at some other place in the village away from the main road and at a higher level.<\/p>\n<p>About our present\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Temple<\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">Temple<\/span>\u00a0site was donated by three families of Lankala Kalavagunta village. These three sites are adjoined to one another and thus facilitated to construction of the <span class=\"il\">temple<\/span> facing East. The ground breaking ceremony for the t<span class=\"il\">emple<\/span>\u00a0took place in the year 2007 and the main t<span class=\"il\">emple<\/span>\u00a0construction completed three years later in the year 2010.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/T1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/T2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Temple<\/span>\u00a0is constructed of two levels. The upper level consists of one &#8216;Garbhalayam&#8217; with two &#8216;Upalayams&#8217; on either side of the &#8216;Garhalayam&#8217; and Mandapam.<\/p>\n<p>Consecrate of Deities is as follows:<br \/>\nVinayaka and Anjaneeyaswamy in Mandapam.<br \/>\nKodandaramaswamy, Sitadevi and Lakshmanaswamy in Garbhalayam.<br \/>\nSridevi, Bhudevi on either side of Venkateswaraswamy in one Upalyam.<br \/>\nLakshminarasimhaswamy in the other Upalayam.<\/p>\n<p>Pranapratista of these Moolavirat(s)took place in the year 2010 and<br \/>\nPrana Prithista of Utsavmmurtis of these Deities except Vigneswara took place in the year 2012.<\/p>\n<p>More funds were raised and during the next phase of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Temple<\/span>, Gopurams are consecrated over Garbhalayam, two Upalayams and 48 feet high Dwajasthambham for the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Temple<\/span>. Sikhara Prathista for these Gopuram (s ) and a Prana Prathista for Dwajasthambham took place in the year 2014.<br \/>\nPrana Prathista of Ajaya and Vijaya in the Mandapam,Naga Prathistaand one more Anjaneeyaswamy in the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Temple<\/span>\u00a0premises took place at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/T7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"648\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About our old\u00a0Temple&#8230; The original Ramalayam was built more than 90 years ago in Lankala Kalavagunta village in Pedana Mandal, Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh. Local families visited the alayam for daily puja and festivals. Sri Rama Navami festival was celebrated with great enthusiasm and devotion and became an annual tradition. Over time, Ramalyam deteriorated &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/index.php\/temple-history\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Temple History<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sriramatemple.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}