79 monoliths and a mountain of challenges: reconstructing a Nayak-era wonder

The inaugural to reconstruct the Veera Vasantharayar Mandapam astatine the Meenakshi Amman Temple successful Madurai, which burned successful a fire, ran into galore hurdles. After an uphill struggle, a squad of astir 150 sculptors, led by sthapathi V.P. Velmurugan of Tiruppur, managed to implicit the project, with the renewed hallway being formally inaugurated connected August 30