* May 9 – Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya the mystic saint composer of the 15th century is the earliest known musician of South India to compose songs called " sankIrtanas " in praise of Lord Venkateswara, the deity of Seven Hills in Tirumala.

In his mangala sloka in ' Sri Bhashya ', the Lokaguru Shrimath Ramanuja declares the glory of Lord Venkateswara:

* NEXUS, annual cultural festival of Sri Venkateswara College.

* Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, an independent trust which manages the Sri Venkateswara Temple at Tirumala and Tirupati

Apart from the responsibilities defined in the previous act, the major addition was that the devasthanam should promote study of Indian languages, should open and operate Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati, should open and operate Hindu Dharma Prathishthanam.

The act further broadened the scope of Sri Venkateswara Sishatachara Vidya Samstha ( renamed from Hindu Dharma Prathishthanam ) to include promotion of Hindu culture.

* Sri Venkateswara Jalanidhi Scheme: " Provide water for pilgrims " usage

* Sri Venkateswara Pranadana Trust: Provide free medical treatment to poor patients afflicted with life-threatening diseases

* Sri Venkateswara Nitya Laddu Danam Scheme: Provide free laddu ( 25 g ) to all pilgrims

* Sri Venkateswara Vanabhivruddhi Scheme: Protect and maintain ecological balance in Tirumala hills

* Sri Balaji Arogyavaraprasadini Scheme: Medical services at Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences ( SVIMS ) for poor people

* Sri Venkateswara Information Technology Seva Trust: Provide IT enabled services to general public

* Sri Venkateswara Heritage Preservation Trust: Preservation of temples and religious symbols

** Sri Venkateswara College, New Delhi

Sri Venkateswara Central Library and Research Centre ( SVCLRC ), established by TTD in 1993, houses approximately 40, 000 volumes of rare and valuable books, mainly on religion and philosophy.

* Annamacharya Project: Established in 1978 with a view to propagate the tatwa and mahatwa of Lord Sri Venkateswara by 3 means: train musicians, research and publication and recording and sale of kirtans.

* Sri Venkateswara Veda Recording Project: TTD has taken up the gigantic project of recording the rendering of Vedas available today, for posterity as the number of preceptors who can render the different sakhas of the vedas has dwindled.

* Sri Venkateswara Video Audio Recording Project: Established in 1990, the project supports all TTD activities related to recording.

* Sri Venkateswara Institute of Traditional Sculpture and Architecture: Preserve and promote the age-old cultural heritage of India, in the areas of traditional sculpture and architecture.

The town is a pilgrimage center for Hindus, with its Sri Venkateswara Temple.

The temple of Sri Venkateswara is on the seventh peak ( Venkatadri ).

Ramanuja was responsible for managing the worship and other affairs of the Sri Venkateswara temple.

The temple is located in the Sri Venkateswara National Park.

* Sri Venkateshwara Balamandir Trust Scheme: Home for Orphans and destitutes

It is owned by the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust and is spread over of land, housing a runway that is 2, 230 metres long.

* Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publications Trust, Prasanthi Nilayam

Sannyasini Gauri Ma ( 1857 – March 1, 1938 ), born Mridani, Saradeshwari Ashram in a Glance published by President Mataji Bandana Sri Saradeshwari Ashram also Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi A Monastic Disciple of Sri Ramakrishna published by Mothers Trust Mothers Place, Lakeshore Interfaith Institute and Community, Ganges, MI USA, was a prominent Indian monastic disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, companion of Sri Sarada Devi and founder of Kolkatta's Sri Saradeswari Ashram.

Branch centers in Navadwip, Ghiridhi, and Mothers Trust Mothers Place, Ramakrishna Sarada Ashram, Lakeshore Interfaith Community is an affiliated branch center in Ganges, MI., USA which was inaugurated by the President, Mataji Bandana Ma of Sri Sri Saradeshwari Ashram in 1998.

All women monastics of Mothers Trust Mothers Place, Ramakrishna Sarada Ashram take their monastic vows from Sri Saradeshwari Ashram, oldest women's math in the direct lineage of Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Sarada Devi 1895.

" Sannyasini Gauri Mata Puri Devi a Monastic Disciple of Sri Ramakrishna " by Swami Shivatatvananda a monk of the Ramakrishna Order and published by Nagpur Ashram and Mothers Trust mothers Place, Lakeshore Interfaith Institute and Community, Ganges, MI USA.

Later for clear legal confirmation of these rules, a Trust Deed was registered by Swami Vivekananda and many of the other disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, during 1899-1901.

* Sri Aurobindo ( 1970 ), The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, War and Self-Determination, ( Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust ), ISBN 81-7058-281-4 ( hardcover ), ISBN 81-7058-014-5 ( paperback )

SVCE was founded by the Sri Venkateswara Educational and Health Trust ( SVEHT ) in 1985.

The Trust was founded on August 1, 1984 at the behest of Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal.

He was later Business Manager, News Director at the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. Corea represented the Director-General of the station at a Commonwealth Broadcasting Conference, when he was in the United Kingdom, on a six-month fellowship with the Nuffield Trust in 1970.

In Kozhikode ( or Calicut ) district, every year since 1981 the Tyagaraja Aradhana Trust has been conducting a 5 day music festival in honour of Sri Tyagaraja.

* The Book of Protection, tr Piyadassi, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 1981 ; translation of the paritta

In Sri Lanka, Cow peas are cooked many different ways, one way is with coconut milk.

* Nanded-Takht Sri Hazur Sahib, One of the five most sacred places in Sikhism.

* 100-First Christians are reported in Monaco, Algeria and Sri Lanka ; a missionary goes to Arbela, a sacred city of the Assyrians that the Christian church is katholikos (" universal ")

Tirumala is one of the 108 sacred shrines of the Sri Vaishanava tradition.

* 1998, January 25: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) terrorists commit a deadly suicide attack on Sri Lanka's most sacred Buddhist site and a UNESCO World Heritage centre: the Temple of the Tooth, where Buddha's tooth relic is enshrined.

According to the Mahavamsa, branches from the Bodhi trees of all the Buddhas born during this kalpa were planted in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) on the spot where the sacred Bodhi tree stands today in Anurādhapura.

On the east there is seven storied Maha gopuram, south Sri Ranganayaki Lakshmi Devi temple and beautiful mirror dias, west is sacred Pennar river and north Sri Andal Ammavari temple.

) ( 337 – c. 424 CE ) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled by foot all the way from China to India, visiting many sacred Buddhist sites in what are now Xinjiang, China, Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and between 399 and 412 to acquire Buddhist scriptures.

The ashoka tree is considered sacred throughout the Indian subcontinent, especially in India and Sri Lanka.

Many shrines also contain sacred relics, such as the alleged tooth of the Buddha held at a shrine in Sri Lanka.

Trincomalee is sacred to both Sri Lankan Tamils and Sinhalese people.

To perpetuate this sacred memory, the tradition of looking at the icon of Sri Krishna through this window before entering the shrine started.

The Village of Navalpakkam near Vandavasi, has been a sacred vedic village where the Idol of Lord Hayagriva has been worshipped in a house where the descendants of Sri Annayarya MahaDesikan Swami were performing the daily rituals.

Nothing is more sacred than Sri Hayagrivan to destroy our accumulated sins.

The Sri Dalada Maligawa, in Kandy, home to the sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha.

Sri Gnana Prasunambika Devi Nithya Annadana scheme was set up to provide free food to the devotees visited the sacred temple of Srikalahasthi, no fewer than 200 devotees are fed daily under this scheme.

Today it is one of the most sacred relics of the Buddhists in Sri Lanka and respected by Buddhists all over the world.

According to the ancient chronicles in Sri Lanka, some walls and terraces had been built surrounding the sacred tree on some occasions in the past.

Founded in the sacred memory of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, on the occasion of His 500th birth anniversary, celebrated in November 1969.

One of the most sacred of Ranganatha temples is Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple at Srirangam, Trichy.

The central shrine of Sri Muktinath, predominant among all 108 Hindu SriVaishnava Divyadesam is considered one of the eight most sacred shrines for Hindu Vaishnavas known as Svayam Vyakta Ksetras, the other seven being Srirangam, Srimushnam, Tirupati, Naimisharanya, Totadri, Pushkar and Badrinath.

The sacred water that flows in 108 pipes around the temple complex denote all sacred Pushkarini waters ( Temple Tanks ) from all 108 Sri Vaishnava Divya Desams including Srirangam, Tirumala, Vaikunta, where the devotees take their sacred bath even in the freezing temperatures.