World’ s largest gathering of women
The Attukal Pongala (the Annual festival of women), around February, March attracts millions of women gathering on the streets and cooking on make-shift stoves, forming a six mile long ring around the ancient Attukal Bhagavathy Temple, and has entered the Guinness Book of World Records on 10th March 2009, where 2.5million women gathered for offerings of Pongal, was adjudicated as the largest gathering of women anywhere in the world. This goddess is worshipped as the supreme mother and she grants every wish of her devotees. Attunkal temple has figures craved in stone of Goddess Kali, Rajarajeswari, Parvathy with Lord Shiva etc. In 2016 March nearly 4 million women are expected to part.