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Thaipusam Festival celebrated at Batu Caves - Malaysia

Hindu devotees celebrated Thaipusam festival in Batu Caves near Kuala Lumpur as thousands of Hindus, who comprise over eight percent of the...

by jidin in Malaysia on 08/02/2012

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Thaipusam Celebration in Penang

The Hindu festival of Thaipusam, celebrated mostly by the Tamil community on the full moon day in the Tamil calendar, took place in honour of the...

by Mohamad Zulhaimie Abdul Mutalib in Malaysia on 08/02/2012

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Thaipusam festival celebrated in Kuala Lumpur

Thousands of Hindus, who comprise over eight percent of Malaysia's 28 million total population, participated in the annual Hindu thanksgiving...

by fareez nazlan in Malaysia on 07/02/2012

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08/02/2012 - Thaipusam Festival celebrated at Batu Caves - Malaysia - Malaysia - Hindu devotees celebrated Thaipusam...
08/02/2012 - Thaipusam Celebration in Penang - Malaysia - The Hindu festival of Thaipusam,...
07/02/2012 - Thaipusam festival celebrated in Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia - Thousands of Hindus, who comprise over...
07/02/2012 - Celebration of Thaipusam Festival in Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia - Thousands of Hindu devotees come to the...
07/02/2012 - Hindu festival of Thaipusam - Malaysia - Thousands of Malaysian Hindu devotees...
07/02/2012 - Thaipusam festival in Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia - Thousands of people participated in the...
07/02/2012 - Annual Thaipusam festival celebrated - Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia - The Hindu festival of Thaipusam, which...
06/02/2012 - Thaipusam festival commences in Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia - Thousands of Hindu devotees prayed in...
06/02/2012 - Thaipusam Celebration in Penang - Malaysia - Malaysia - Reports of a million people turned up...
20/01/2011 - Malaysian Hindus celebrate Thaipusam - Malaysia - Hundreds of thousands of Hindu devotee...

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Annual Thaipusam festival celebrated - Kuala Lumpur
The Hindu festival of Thaipusam, which commemorates the day when Goddess Pavarthi gave her son Lord Muruga an invincible lance with which he destroyed evil demons, was celebrated by som...
Thaipusam Festival celebrated at Batu Caves - Malaysia
Hindu devotees celebrated Thaipusam festival in Batu Caves near Kuala Lumpur as thousands of Hindus, who comprise over eight percent of the population, participated in the annual thanks...
Thaipusam Celebration in Penang
The Hindu festival of Thaipusam, celebrated mostly by the Tamil community on the full moon day in the Tamil calendar, took place in honour of the deity Lord Murugan. Georgetown, Malaysi...
Thaipusam Celebration in Penang - Malaysia
Reports of a million people turned up in Penang as the procession starts on the morning before Thaipusam. 6th February 2012
Celebration of Thaipusam Festival in Kuala Lumpur
Thousands of Hindu devotees come to the Lord Murugan temple during the Thaipusam festival in Batu Caves, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2012 Thaipusam Celebration at Batu Caves, Selangor, Malaysia
Hindu Devotees Celebrate the yearly celebration of Thaipusam at the Batu Caves temple, 20km from Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia. 7th February 2012.
Thaipusam festival in Kuala Lumpur
Thousands of people participated in the annual Hindu thanksgiving festival in which devotees subject themselves to painful rituals in a demonstration of faith and penance, held in the c...
Hindu festival of Thaipusam
Thousands of Malaysian Hindu devotees participated in the annual celebration of Thaipusam at the Batu Caves temple 30 km outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 7th February 2012
Thaipusam festival celebrated in Kuala Lumpur
Thousands of Hindus, who comprise over eight percent of Malaysia's 28 million total population, participated in the annual Hindu thanksgiving festival in the capital at the Batu Ca...
Thaipusam festival commences in Kuala Lumpur
Thousands of Hindu devotees prayed in front of the Lord Muruga's chariot during the annual Thaipusam festival in the capital. Malaysia. 6th February 2012
Thaipusam celebrated in Malaysia
Thaipusam celebration in Malaysia. Georgetown, Penang. 20th January 2011
Malaysian Thaipusam Festival at Batu Caves
The annual Thaipusam festival was celebrated at Batu Caves. The colorful parade and dancing of Kavadi Attam attracted at least a million Hindus devotees and tourists to the ceremonial w...
Malaysian Hindu Devotees Celebrate Thaipusam
Thousands of Malaysian Hindu Devotees celebrate Thaipusam on 20th January 2010. In Malaysia, Batu Caves, near to Kuala Lumpur, is one of the places where Hindus devotees gathered to cel...
Kuala Lumpur Celebrates Thaipusum
The Hindu festival Thaipusam is celebrated in Malaysia as over one million people are drawn to the temple at Batu Caves. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 20/01/2011
Malaysian Hindus celebrate Thaipusam
Hundreds of thousands of Hindu devotee carries a kavadi and pal kodam (milk) in a pot during Thaipusam festival at Batu Caves temple near Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 20/01/2...
Thaipusam and Coconut Smashing 2011
Millions of old coconuts were broken as a form of thanksgiving by Hindu devotees and foreign tourists in conjunction of the annual celebration of Thaipusam in Georgetown, Penang, Malays...
Thaipusam in Batu Caves
DMTX. Images of the celebrations of Thaipusam which is celebrated on the 10th month of the Hindu calendar, which falls in January or February each year. It is a day of penance and thank...
Thaipusam Festival
DMTX. Thaipusam Hindu festival, held in the Tamil month of Thai which celebrates the birth of Murugan,the youngest son of Shiva and his wife Parvati. The festival at Batu Caves, Kuala L...
Thaipusam, The Spiritual Festival
A Malaysian Hindu devotee takes part in a cleansing ritual before his pilgrimage to the sacred Batu Caves temple during Thaipusam in Kuala Lumpur January 30, 2010.
Tai Full moon Celebration
DMTX. An estimated two million devotees of the Hindu supreme god Lord Shiva converge on the town of Tiruvannamalai, to celebrate the full moon in the Tamil month of Tai on January 29th....