Three crore devotees visit Sri Venkateswara Swami temple in last 14 months
Receives record revenue of Rs 1398 crores Patibandla Srinivas ([email protected]) Over three crore devotees visited Sri Lord Venkateswara Swami temple in Tirumala Tirupati during the last 14 months…
Receives record revenue of Rs 1398 crores
Patibandla Srinivas
Over three crore devotees visited Sri Lord Venkateswara Swami temple in Tirumala Tirupati during the last 14 months from January 2023. As per the officials of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, the total of 2.62 crore devotees visited the temple in the year 2023 alone.
Sri Venkateswara temple received offerings worth Rs 112 crore in February this year from more than 19 lakh devotees. Over 2.1 million devotees visited Lord Venkateswara in Tirumala during the month of January.
Temple reports billions in wealth
The temple budget is estimated at Rs 5142 crore for the year 2024-2025 with slight increase of previous year’s Rs 5123 crore. The temple has earmarked Rs 2500 crore annually for salaries and material supply only.
India’s richest Venkateswara Swami temple reported an astonishing set of wealth consisting of 10.3 tonnes of gold deposits in nationalised banks and a cash deposit of ₹15,938 crores ($1.94 billion). The total worth of temple assets has been pegged at ₹2.26 lakh crore ($27.56 billion).
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), released a white paper recently and declared the list of its assets including fixed deposits and gold deposits.
“TTD’s investments in the form of fixed deposits in various banks in 2019 was 13,025 crore, which has now increased to 15,938 crores ($19.44 billion). In the last three years, the investment increased by 2,900 crores ($3.5 billion), the officials said.