திருப்பதி பாலாஜி: ஒவ்வொரு பிரார்த்தனைக்கும் பதிலளிக்கும் மலையின் கடவுள்

The Richest Temple on Earth — And Why Wealth Is the Least of It

The Sri Venkateswara Temple at Tirumala receives an average of 60,000 to 100,000 pilgrims daily, swelling to over 500,000 during festivals — making it the most visited religious site in the world by daily footfall, surpassing even the Vatican and Mecca on regular days. Its annual revenue, almost entirely from donations, runs into several billion rupees, funding free meals for thousands, hospitals, schools, and charitable endowments across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Devotees donate gold, jewellery, hair, and cash with a fervour that has made the temple's treasury among the largest single repositories of gold in private hands anywhere on the planet. But for the millions who undertake the journey to Tirumala each year, none of this institutional wealth is why they come. They come because they believe — with the absolute certainty that only direct experience can produce — that Lord Venkateshwara, the destroyer of sins, the wish-fulfiller, hears every prayer spoken on his hill and answers it.

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