Tirupati: Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) opened the Rs 20 crore Lord Venkateswara temple replica in Hyderabad yesterday.
The replica was built by the TTD that governs the Lord Venkateswara shrine at Tirumala. It was built at a cost of Rs 20 crore on a 3.5-acre land at Jubilee Hills area in Hyderabad.
Special rituals were performed by the priests, including Mahakumbabhishekam (consecration) early yesterday morning and then devotees were allowed to offer prayers at the new temple.
In 2014, the TTD had decided to build the replica in the undivided Andhra Pradesh. In 2017, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao offered two golden ornament totally weighing about 19 kg and worth about Rs 5 crore to the presiding deity.
The TTD has already opened a replica of the hill shrine in Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu, and has proposed to build another one in Amaravati, the capital of Andhra Pradesh.