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Sabarimala more than doubles online room booking to 400 from the Thulam pujas

The Travancore Devaswom Board raised the number of Sannidhanam rooms bookable online from 190 to 400, including 10 at the Sabari Guest House.

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Representative image: Shabarimala. Photo: AnjanaMenon at Malayalam Wikipedia via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Travancore Devaswom Board raised the number of Sannidhanam rooms bookable online from 190 to 400, including 10 at the Sabari Guest House. The shrine opens on 17 October for the Thulam month pujas.

Key data

Rooms up from 190 to 400. Kerala has given ₹551.5 crore to the PWD for pilgrimage works.

Why it matters

More rooms can be booked online before the Maṇḍala and Makaraviḷakku season.

GK: did you know?

The Travancore Devaswom Board was constituted under the Travancore-Cochin Hindu Religious Institutions Act, 1950.

Read more at the source

Filed in the Tuesday, 6 October 2026 edition. Source time 18:29 IST. Facts are drawn from the linked reports; claims are attributed to the people who made them.

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