WITH Thaipusam just days away, my family members and I decided to visit the much revered Murugan Temple in Batu Caves. We wanted to avoid the crowds and decided to conduct our prayers earlier.

The journey ends with a climb up the 272 stairs leading to the Batu Caves, a trio of caverns dedicated to Murugan. A 140-foot, gold-painted statue of the deity greets visitors as they prepare to ...

As the devotees march towards the stairs at the Batu Caves, they often call out ‘ Vel! Vel! ’ Legend has it Lord Murugan used the vel to vanquish a group of demons known as the asuras.

A kavadi bearer fulfilling his vows at Batu Caves Subramaniar Swamy Temple in this file picture dated January 29, 2023. — Picture by Raymond Manuel What you need to know about the celebration ...

Murugan, Truely Asian - The Batu Caves Temple in Kuala Lumpur with its 140 ft statue of Kartikeya epitomises the devotion of Tamil settlers in Malaysia, says Ranjeni A ...

The Batu Caves temple complex, built at the heart of a great limestone cavern cut in a hill, is usually a quiet place where tourists and worshippers are outnumbered by the monkeys and birds that ...

A TEAM of sculptors and artisans who built the Lord Murugan statue at the Batu Caves temple will construct Asia’s tallest Murugan statue in India, Makkal Osai reported.