Devotees throng Batu Caves for consecration ceremony


Crowd of devotees entering the newly renovated main temple to worship during Maha Kumbhavisegam temple consecration ceremony. — Photos: S.S.KANESAN/The Star

IT may not have been Thaipusam but it sure looked like it, as thousands thronged Batu Caves on the morning of Aug 31.

It was the Batu Caves temples’ kumbhabhishekam or consecration ceremony, held once every 12 years.

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