Venkateshwara Temple (Tirupati Balaji)

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Tirumala Venkateshwara Temple is also known as Tirupati balaji is a famous temple in Tirumula in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh in India. Every year thousands of pilgrimage visits this place. It is a temple of Lord Vishnu.Tirupati Laddu is famous and its given at Tirumala Temple as Prasad. A lots of devotees have their head tonsured offer it to God as mokku.The daily collection of hair in this temple is in tons. The hair is gathered by the temple trust and is sold a few times a year through a public market to international buyers. They use hair as hair extensions. Its brings millions of rupees to the trust of temple. The Hundi (donation Pot) collection is around 20 million rupees in a day ecluding the gold and silver. One ritual offered in this temple known as Thulabaram. In this ritual devotee has to sit in a pan of weighing balance while the other pan is filled with the material weigh more than the devotee. This could be anything which devotee wants to give to trust. Most of the pilgrim offer sugar, jiggery, food grains, tulsi, coins, gold and silver. This temple is the richest temple in the world. 



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