Amar Singh College Srinagar bags UNESCO Award
Amar Singh College Srinagar bags UNESCO Award
Aheritage building and that also housing academicians and students for nearly 105 years to teach and learn respectively in a row, bagging prestigious International Award for cultural heritage conservation is a matter of pride especially for those who have been its alumni. Amar Singh College situated in Gogji Bagh Srinagar has been awarded the famous and covetous UNESCO AsiaPacific Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation. This College, the second most prestigious after the oldest institute of higher education in Kashmir – Sri Pratap College, with a touch of nostalgia it may be clarified, was first established in 1913 as Amar Singh Technical Institute primarily for purposes to impart coaching and training both – in art, culture, masonry and carpentry opened by the noble, visionary and arts crafts and knowledge lover Maharaja Pratap Singh. It was only in 1942 that the institute was conver
Koothambalam of Guruvayur temple wins UNESCO laurels
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Award of Distinction for cultural heritage conservation
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Award of Distinction for cultural heritage conservation
The renovated Koothambalam of the Sreekrishna temple, Guruvayur, has been selected for the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award for cultural heritage conservation. It
received the Award of Distinction.
The UNESCO introduced the special award to acknowledge the role and contribution of cultural heritage to sustainable development.
The restoration work on the Koothambalam hall valorised the affinity between architectural heritage and associated living, spiritual and artistic tradition, said the UNESCO in its statement.
“The project has sensitively conserved one of the few remaining structures in southern Indian designed for ritual performances of the Koodiyattom,” it said.