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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aragon" data-source="post: 5679451" data-attributes="member: 134516">New Years Morning 1624, the temple was decorated and well lit with eleven oil lamps for the New Year's worship and pooja (form of worship) observances. After the pooja, the customary festival procession proceeded out to the town with a crowd of worshippers. At this time, Portuguese emissaries and soldiers gained entrance into the temple disguised as Hindu priests. They overpowered the few temple priests and workers who remained in the temple and looted the temple. All the possessions, treasured over a thousand years were carried away. In the confusion, the few devotees, who escaped, carried away temple belongings they were able to take. These were the articles that were unearthed several years after in 1950 and now form part of the newly built Thirukoneswaram temple. The deities taken in procession were beyond the reach of the vandals and were placed in safety at other temples. Towards the evening, Portuguese Commander Constantine de Sa delivered an ultimatum to the temple priest. It said that everything valuable in the temple should be surrendered to him at dawn of the following day as he will fire cannons from the ship at the Trincomalee sea and blast the temple down. <img src="http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/premchand/tirukoneswaram_1935.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Devotees at Swami Rock in 1935, before the new temple was built)</blockquote>

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