Kodungallur to host first museum on temple arts, rituals
Deccan ChronicleThrissur: The Kerala government will build a unique museum that throws light and promotes research on the state's temple arts and allied rituals, tourism minister Kadakampally Surendran has said. The proposed repository with an estimated cost of Rs 3.69 crore will be the first of its kind in southern India and is set to come up in this district's Kodungallur town, known primarily for its two-millennium-old shrine Sree Kurumba Bhagavathy temple. The Cheraera religious complex is also poised for conservation and facelift under the Muziris Heritage Project at Kodungallur, according to the minister, who also holds the state's Devaswom portfolio, too Steps are on to renovate the dining hall and the administrative wing of the temple renowned for its deity of goddess Kali and spirit of the shakti cult, he revealed at a function convened in Kodungallur to announce the government's package on conservation the other day. Mr Surendran noted that the government continues to give thrust on the tourism department's MHP that strives to showcase the civilisational richness of a coastal region along the present-day central Kerala that flourished for one-and-a-half millennium.
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