{"id":1727,"date":"2020-03-23T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2020-03-23T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T06:42:09","slug":"16th-century-goa-temple-bans-tourists-in-view-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":"16th century Goa temple bans tourists in view of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\"> &#8220;Tourists shall be prohibited from entering the temple premises due to our inability to ascertain their travel history. the circular issued by the temple&#8217;s managing committee stated, <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.manoramaonline.com\/travel\/travel-news\/2020\/03\/21\/goa-temple-bans-tourists.html\">OnManorama <\/a>has reported.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> <strong>Panaj<\/strong>i: A popular 16th century temple in Goa on Friday has banned entry of tourists to the temples premises located in south Goa due to possible spread of COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> &#8220;Tourists shall be prohibited from entering the temple premises due to our inability to ascertain their travel history. the circular issued by the temple&#8217;s managing committee stated.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> However the temple itself will remain open and &#8220;regular rituals will continue to be performed as usual.&#8221; other services like ritualistic offering of food to visitors, offering of prasad bought from outside the temple premises, along with room bookings by devotees has been abandoned.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> &#8220;Priests have been advised to keep safe distance from the devotees&#8230; Devotees are advised not to visit temple premises, unless essential. Management reserves the right to restrict entry to the temple,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/travel.manoramaonline.com\/travel\/travel-news\/2020\/03\/21\/goa-temple-bans-tourists.html\"> the circular also says<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> On Thursday, the Roman Catholic Church too urged the laity to not visit Church premises in groups and refrained them from the mandatory chore of attending Sunday prayer services.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> The deity housed in the temple, Ramnath, was relocated in the 16th century by its followers, to the present day Ponda sub-district after they escaped from Portuguese-held regions of Goa due to religious persecution.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Image Source: YouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tourists shall be prohibited from entering the temple premises due to our inability to ascertain their travel history. the circular issued by the temple&#8217;s managing committee stated, OnManorama has reported. Panaji: A popular 16th century temple in Goa on Friday has banned entry of tourists to the temples premises located in south Goa due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":1728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[426,129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}