Our NEW Granite Rajagopuram Project

Our TempleOur NEW Granite Rajagopuram Project
  • This immense project is over 2 Million Canadian Dollars
  • Effective from August 2024 – November 2025
  • Please click the folowing image for the flyer and also read the entire page for more details.

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Proposed Rajagopuram (Main Tower) with Granite Stones cladding Main entrance – EAST side

Preamble

The above project hatched many years ago when our team started noticing some cracks in the old traditionally (brick and mortar) built construction of the Rajagopuram since it was built in 2006. The original construction was mainly based on our traditional agamic ways of Sri Lanka and India.
 
But it seems to be not withstanding harsh wintry weather and frequently fluctuating temperatures throughout the years in North America. But when our team of Engineering expertise personnel within our organization inspected it was found to be sturdy and strong inside the cores but the external ornamental works had deteriorated over the years as explained above.
 

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Initial stages

The initial Restoration Project Committee – Appointed by Saiva Mission of Quebec – 2018 See below
 
The following “FIVE”members as “PANCHA”
A good spiritual number perhaps as “Five Elements”

K. Yoganathan – Structural Engineer/Past President/Trustee

S. Sarawanabawan – Structural Engineer/Pioneer Trustee

M. Umapathy – Financial Specialist/Past President/Chairperson Board of Trustees

V. Vijayakanthan – Irrigation/Civil Engineer/Past President/ Pioneer Trustee

S. Raveenthiramoorthy – Q & R Engineering/Past President/Pioneer Trustee.
 
The above personnel strived very intensively with all possibilities of different materials like FRP – Fiber Reinforced Plastic, GFRC – Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete and also Granite options that was in our minds from the inception and studied well over a period of 10 years.

Additionally we also would like to respect and honor the tireless efforts of some of
Our past Presidents
Mr. S. Thirunadarajah – 2004
Mr. B. Karunananthan – 2020
and the current incumbent President
Mr. K. Pushpanantham – 2022
They were quite involved in many fruitful discussions and were behind the scene in this restoration project in recent years.

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Synopsis of Historical Analysis


Some analysis were done quite rigorously as compared with ASTM, ASME (US), NRC (Canada), IIT (India) and based on many factors and feasibility studies for the Rajagopuram to withstand all possible Nature’s indiscriminative and fluctuations of weather patterns etc. Some subject matter expert’s advices were also sought and discussed with leading professionals from other Temples in North America and also from Professionals from Universities in Canada and US as well.
 
Finally based on many factors and also keeping in mind of our Agama Shastra but primarily Vedic rules of physical properties as well as spiritual nature of resonance blended with nature’s energy, vibration and our strong beliefs of centuries old traditional Saivaite philosophical phenomenon of “Cause and Effect”. Our good team of professionals within our Boards of Saiva Mission of Quebec finally chose “Granite” option in 2022/2023 for all matters in all aspects of Life and Infrastructure as well.

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Spiritual and Engineering Aspects

This way our learned Priests and Saivaite scholars from Sri Lanka and India believed in Divine transmission will be achieved as stated by Sage MAANICAVASAGAR in “Thiruvaasagam” with Granite structures (comprising of Five elements Earth, Water, Heat/Fire, Air and Space see pictorial below) as compared with other materials even though they were considered generally good for building structures in North America. But not necessarily those other materials are inferior but unsuitable for Temple’s intrinsic spiritual nature of values that cannot be explained in any text books or any Engineering disciplines and can neither be challenged nor argued for such consideration of Temple’s embodied theism of our Saivaism beliefs and its related culture for the well-being of our Human Life cycle.

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Our Professional Consultants & Contractors
Thamilnaadu – India

Dr. K. Dakshinamoorthy Sthapathy, B. Sc., M.A., Ph.D.
Karaikudi – Thamilnaadu – India

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Our Professional Consultants & Contractors
Quebec – Canada

Mr. Leonardo Soares, P. Eng – President, Altapex Construction
Montreal, Quebec – Canada(a leading professional construction company in Canada)

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Kalasams Removal Day 22 Aug 2024

Temple Priests perform rituals before removal of the KALASAMS to facilitate the new Restoration project with Granites.
Present in the form of an inverted pot with a point facing the sky, Kalasams are prominent elements of temple architecture. According to the Aitareya Brahmana, a Golden Kalasam is regarded to represent a Sun upon the summit of a deity’s dwelling, the temple.
Most KALASAMs are made of metal and some of stone.
Click the picture to watch the video

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Proposed Rajagopuram – NORTH side (facing the adjacent property line)
Proposed Rajagopuram – SOUTH side (facing St. Regis Blvd road side)

Restoration Project Committee – Appointed by Saiva Mission of Quebec – Click to see their profiles

K. Yoganathan – S. Sarawanabawan – M. Umapathy – V. Vijayakanthan – S. Raveenthiramoorthy

Please see the flyer with some details and pictures and video for more details of the project.

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Welcome to The Montreal THIRUMURUGAN Temple. Our masterpiece Restoration of RAJAGOPURAM (Main Ornate Tower) will be unqiue and your simple donation or sponsoring of Granite stone will be a spiritual blessing to your family *வணக்கம் உங்கள் வரவு நல்வரவாகுக* *Bonjour* *Namasthe* இராஜகோபுர புனருத்தான திருப்பணியில் உங்கள் அன்பளிப்பு அல்லது கருங்கல் உபயம் உங்கள் குடும்பத்திற்கு ஆத்மீக ஆசிர்வாதமாக இருக்கும்