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MADURAI: Wearing traditional attire, Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at Madurai s famous Meenakshi Amman temple on Thursday.
After landing at the Madurai International Airport, Modi reached the temple around 8.30 pm wearing a dhoti and shirt.
He was seen entering the shrine through Amman Sannidhi Entrance of East Chithirai Street and welcomed by temple authorities, priests with Parivattam, and Poorna Kumba Mariyathai .
Later, he went inside accompanied by the temple takkar Karumuthu T Kannan, Joint Commissioner of the temple, Chelladurai.
Modi offered prayers at Siddhi Vinayagar and Mukkurani Vinayagar shrines located inside the temple.
Further, he went to the sanctum sanctorum of the Meenakshi Amman and thereafter visited the Sundareswarar sanidhi.