According to the officials, the 'chulhas' (ovens) are used for cooking the 'Mahaprasad', which is offered to the lord, in the 'Rosa Ghar', the world's largest kitchen. About 300 quintals of rice are cooked at the kitchen every day.
They also visited the seats of Maa Bimala and Maa Laxmi in the premises of the temple.
On the next day, he will visit Shree Chaitanya Goudiya Mutt in the morning, following which he will reach Saradhabali in front of Gundicha Temple to attend a...
The President is slated to arrive at the Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar at 2.45 PM on February 19 and then proceed to Puri after 10 minutes,...
Earlier, Shree Jagannath Sena, a local outfit had staged a demonstration in front of the temple demanding the reopening of the shrine.
The darshan timings will be from 7 am to 7 pm on all days and the residents of Puri Municipality area will be allowed entry for darshan of the Lords from...
The holy town of Puri has become the first city in the country to provide something that only major world cities like London and New York offer: clean drinking...
The laser scanning will be completed when the deities are out of the temple for the nine-day Ratha Jatra.
Jagannath Rath Yatra 2021: Had it not been for the restrictions imposed by the Covid pandemic, lakhs of devotees would have converged to the holy town of Puri...
For the second consecutive year, the annual Rath Yatra will be held without the participation of devotees and only those servitors who test negative for...
The Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath in Puri is an annual ritual and this time, it is scheduled for July 12.
The juggernaut is subdued, again. Puri will see only a scaled-down rath yatra, with complete Covid protocol. Devotees will be mostly watching on TV. Smaller...
Two dozen priests test positive at Jagannath. And the portals close to the devotees. The idea is to ensure the rath yatra—the ‘juggernaut’—goes off...
The Puri Collector said that special arrangements and a queue system will soon be introduced for elderly/senior citizens coming to the temple.
The temple remained closed on January 1 and 2 and reopened for all devotees from across the country from Sunday.
'The proposed airport will help bring Jagannath devotees from across the world,' Patnaik said in the letter.
Visitors from outside Puri, however, will have to produce Covid negative reports to enter the shrine.
Pandemic disrupts the inner world of Jagannath Temple servitors.
In these brilliant essays, the polysemic Jagannath cult is discussed threadbare: its great influence through the region and multilayered devotional praxis, its...
Covid 19 tests of 1,143 servitors were undertaken as per the direction of Supreme Court ahead of the Rath Yatra. Except for one all were found negative.
The Supreme Court said it can't "micro-manage" Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra in Puri, and will leave it to the wisdom of state, Centre and temple management to...
Earlier, the Gajapati king, who is the head of the Temple Management Committee, had written to Chief Minister urging him to file a modification petition in the...
The money had been deposited in the shape of two term deposits which would mature on March 16 and 29
