Kerala temple,Wakf board join hands for Sabari devotees

Travancore Devaswom Board and Kerala Wakf Board will work together to enhance amenities for pilgrims.

Travancore Devaswom Board and Kerala Wakf Board will work together to enhance amenities for pilgrims who visit here to pay respect to Lord Ayyappa’s Muslim disciple Vavar,before trekking up the hillshrine.

A meeting of the top officials of TDB,Wakf Board and the local mosque committee held here yesterday decided to work out schemes improving facilities for thousands of pilgrims for whom the town is a stopover.

“Though connection between Sabarimla and Eerumeli mosque have been there for long,it is for the first time that members of the temple and Wafk boards are sitting across a table to discuss things,” Kerala Wakf Board Chairman K V Abdul Khadar said.

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According to local tradition,Vavar was a bandit who later in his life became a follower of Lord Ayyappa.

Local Muslims venerate Vavar as an ‘oulia’ (saintly servant of God) and a mosque had been built in his memory centuries back in this pilgrim town.

Pilgrims pay respect to Vavar before setting out on the arduous journey by foot to the hill shrine of Lord Ayyappa.

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