Shivamogga prepares for Marikamba festival

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The preparations for the five-day Kote Marikamba Jatre opening  connected  Tuesday person  been completed. The organising committee, with the enactment    of devotees and donors, has decorated the temple and the streets connecting the metropolis  to the temple.

The preparations for the five-day Kote Marikamba Jatre opening connected Tuesday person been completed. The organising committee, with the enactment of devotees and donors, has decorated the temple and the streets connecting the metropolis to the temple. | Photo Credit: S.K. Dinesh

The streets starring to the Kote Marikamba Temple successful Shivamogga metropolis person been illuminated to invited the devotees for the five-day Marikamba Jatre, opening connected Tuesday. The festival, held erstwhile each 2 years, attracts thousands of devotees from antithetic places.

The temple has been decorated with fruits and roses. Nearly 10,000 roses person been utilized to decorate the temple. The festivities began aboriginal greeting connected Tuesday astatine Gandhi Bazar. A statue of Maha Kali has been placed astatine the entranceway of Gandhi Bazar.

S.K. Mariyappa, president of the Kote Marikamba Seva Samiti, connected Monday, told the media persons that the preparations for the lawsuit had been completed with the assistance of the City Corporation, constabulary and different departments. The committee had taken utmost attraction to guarantee that the devotees visiting the temple person darshana of the deity peacefully.

N. Manjunath, caput of the committee, said that they had made arrangements for the parking of vehicles successful consultation with the police. The residents of the locality astir the temple would look trouble taking retired their vehicles during the festival, helium added.

Published - February 23, 2026 09:18 p.m. IST

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