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HAPPY NAVARATRI 2024🌺🌺🌺🌺
Name Padma B Udaya Kumar
Place Bangalore
Theme 108 Divya Desams as built at the Statue of Equality
Hello everyone,
I have been keeping Golu from 38 years. This is my 5th year of thematic golu.
This year our theme is 108 Divya Desams as depicted at the Statue of Equality, Hyderabad.

Golu Theme
Adiyen Ramanuja Dasi,
My theme for this years’ Navratri is 108 Divya Desams. These are the spiritual abodes of Lord Vishnu spread all over India. There is only one Divya Desam outside India ie. Muktinath in Nepal.
We started planning our theme just after Last years Navratri. And started execution in last December. Hence it is one years, hard work almost like a penance. The theme is entirely handmade and a DIY(Do It Yourself) theme. We cut each gopuram, arch and pillars and assembled each mini temple.
We always plan our theme mostly with easily available resources. The uniqueness of our Golu theme each year is that we choose economical yet educational and informative themes. I have used customized sweet boxes as mini temples. The photos of the deities are from the book “Statue of Equality, a brief introduction to 108 Divya Desams “ published by the Chinna Jeeyar of Hyderabad. By Perumal’s grace the 108 Divya Desams have come out very beautifully. We have arranged the 108 Divya deams in the form of 2 huge Gopurams. The gopurams are 8 feet in height and 1.5 width. We have given utmost importance to various details while planning the mini temples. We have used different types of gopurams to differentiate between the Tamil Nadu divya desams, the Kerala Divya desams and the North India Divya Desams .
It is said that one can attain moksha or freedom from the cycle of birth and death by visiting these 108 Divya desams. So I wanted to recreate the 108 temples at one place so that we all can have the darshan of the Lord at one location. Just like at the Statue of Equlaity which houses replicas of the 108 Divya Desams.
The main traditional golu has various dolls like Perumal, Thayar, Lakshmi, Saraswathi, Ram Lalla, Andal Rangamanar, Ashtalakshmi, Dasavatara, 4 pairs of Marpachi bomme, temples of India, Mysore Dasara, Navadurga etc. Please see the photos and videos. I've labelled all the dolls and hence it is self explainnatory.