Madurai, May 3 -- A procession is underway on the fifth day of the Chithirai festival at the Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, drawing large crowds across the temple town on Saturday.

On the occasion, the deities were adorned with traditional armour embedded with precious stones and taken in a ceremonial procession along the four Masi streets.

Earlier on Friday, a moment unfolded as the procession passed by the South Gate area, where members of the Mughayadeen Andavar Mosque offered cold drinks and sweets to devotees and temple priests lining the streets. In a symbolic act of communal harmony, the temple priest (Sivachariyar) presented a garland to the mosque representative in front of the mosque premises, as devote...