TTD is organising weeklong float festival of Sri Govindaraja Swamy temple from February 20-26. Teppotsavam is a seven days Annual Festival celebrated in Sri Govindaraja Swamy Temple by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam. Sri Govindaraja Swamy Temple is located in the temple town of tirupati in Andhrapradesh. The float festival will be celebrated on Swami Pushkarani every evening during the 7 days. Sri Swamy Vari Pushkarani is situated opposite to Sri Govinda Raja Swamy Temple.
Sri Govindaraja Swamy temple Float Festival Dates
Every day in a different alankaram Sri Govindaraja Swamy along with other galaxy of deities will ride on richly decorated floats in the Sri Govindaraja Swamy Pushkarini in the evening between 6.30pm and 8pm to bless the devotees. Theppa means boat, A Boat will be decorated with Flowers and lights in Pushkarini and the Festival will be conducted on the boat.
Following is the schedule of alankarams and number of rounds.
February 20: Sri Kodandaramaswami-5 rounds.
February 21: Sri Parthasarathy-5 rounds
February 22: Sri Kalyana Venkateshwara-5 rounds
February 23: Sri Krishna Swamy along with Sri Andal Ammavaru-5 rounds
February 24,25,26: Sri Govindaraja Swamy- 7 rounds.
The artists of HDPP and the Annamacharya project will perform bhajans, Harikatha and sangeet programs at the Sri Govindaraja Swamy Pushkarini during float festival days