KUALA LUMPUR: Over a million flooded Batu Caves for Thaipusam on Wednesday ... The day is as hot as ever but many devotees still walk barefooted on the burning tarmac for their pilgrimage.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple in Batu Caves has 'opened the door' for ... said the temple was making all preparations for Hindu devotees to pay their vows, including bringing ...

After a two-year wait brought about by Covid-19 lockdowns, Hindu devotees thronged the Sri Subramaniar temple at Batu Caves today to finally fulfil their Thaipusam vows. Devotees were not deterred ...

In offering their kavadi to Murugan, devotees inflicting pain on themselves ... The journey ends with a climb up the 272 stairs leading to the Batu Caves, a trio of caverns dedicated to Murugan.

As Thaipusam coincides with the school holidays this year, both the Batu Caves temple and Penang's Waterfall Hilltop Temple are preparing to receive over 1.5 million devotees each. Meanwhile ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 (Bernama) -- This year’s Thaipusam celebration at Batu Caves will feature enhanced medical and emergency response services, as an estimated 1.2 to 1.5 million devotees and visitors ...

KUALA LUMPUR: For the past two years, Hindu devotees in Malaysia were not able ... Drums being prepared by a member of the Batu Caves Pillayar Bhajans - a percussion group - at Selvakumar's ...

Currently, devotees and visitors have to climb the colourful stairs comprising 272 steps to reach the Sri Subramaniar cave temple. An escalator will be built at Batu Caves this year as an ...

Hindu devotees climb the coloured stairs to pray at the Batu Caves temple during Deepavali in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Nov 4, 2021. (Photo: AP/Vincent Thian) New: You can now listen to articles.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 14 (Bernama) -- Maintenance and repairs at the Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple, Batu Caves, which include the provision ... up this renovation so that it is ready for use by devotees ...

Celebrations centred, as they have for more than a century, at the Batu Caves complex on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur. Devotees bearing offerings such as milk pots or carrying ...