While temples are associated with worship, it has also been closely associated with offerings. Devotees continue to make offerings to the temples, ranging from food items to rupees, gold, silver, and precious jewelry.
According to the Indian news agency PTI (Press Trust of India), the Trust of India's richest temple issued a press release yesterday, in which they presented the details of the temple's wealth. This temple is located in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India and is popularly known as the 'Tirupati Temple'.The temple's Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) Trust has said it has 10.3 tonnes of gold and Rs 5,300 crore in banks. Apart from this, it also has a cash balance of Rs 15,938 crore. Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam manages the Tirupati temple and has issued a white paper declaring its assets. According to TTD, it had fixed deposits of Rs 13,025 crore in various banks in the year 2019, which has now increased to Rs 15,938 crore.
It has 960 properties across India. This investment has increased by Rs 2,900 crore during the last three years. India's English newspaper 'The Minute' wrote that the total worth of Tirupati temple is 30 billion US dollars, which is more than India's largest IT company Wipro, food, and beverage company Nestle, and state-owned oil company. According to the newspaper, the temple's TTD Trust was established in 1933 and has presented its wealth details for the first time. A temple official told The Minute that TTD is getting richer as offerings of cash and gold from devotees at the hilltop temple continue to increase and interest rates rise. Given that banks are generating more income than fixed deposits.TTD also oversees the management of many temples in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Odisha, Haryana, Maharashtra, and New Delhi. Earlier, a decade ago in 2011, diamonds and gems worth billions of rupees were discovered in the basement of a 16th-century temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala this temple named Padmanabha Swamy is located in the state capital Thiruvananthapuram. According to reports, two of the four basements of the temple were not opened for the last one hundred and thirty years, but after the orders of the Supreme Court, a seven-member committee has gone inside and examined the antiquities. The authorities have not yet said anything about the value of the artifacts in the temple, but there are reports that there is approximately 25 billion rupees worth of diamonds and gems inside the temple.
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