{"id":1750,"date":"2020-03-23T15:53:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T10:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2020-03-23T15:53:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T10:23:33","slug":"srikalahasteeswara-lord-balaji-temples-closed-for-devotees-due-to-covid-19-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"Srikalahasteeswara, Lord Balaji temples closed for devotees due to COVID-19 scare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\"> Accordingly, the temple authorities at Srikalahasteeswara temple have closed its doors, stopping the entry of the devotees into the premises, has beenn reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devdiscourse.com\/article\/headlines\/948827-coronavirus-srikalahasteeswara-lord-balaji-temples-closed-for-visitors\">Dev Discourse<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0Andhra Pradesh\u00a0government has ordered all major temples in the state to remain closed till the end of the month due to coronavirus threat. The state endowments department has issued orders in this regard to arrest the possible spread of deadly coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the temple authorities at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devdiscourse.com\/article\/headlines\/948827-coronavirus-srikalahasteeswara-lord-balaji-temples-closed-for-visitors\">Srikalahasteeswara temple<\/a> have closed its doors, stopping the entry of the devotees into the premises. However, temple priests will perform all pujas and other services as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Also, public prayers at Lord\u00a0Balaji\u00a0temple in\u00a0Tirumala\u00a0have been stopped from 12 noon on Friday for one week as a precautionary measure to prevent coronavirus spread. Earlier in 1892, the temple was closed for devotees for two days. Now the temple has been closed for devotees for one week. However, all the daily temple rituals, regular pujas will be performed as usual.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Image Source: rgyan.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accordingly, the temple authorities at Srikalahasteeswara temple have closed its doors, stopping the entry of the devotees into the premises, has beenn reported by Dev Discourse. The\u00a0Andhra Pradesh\u00a0government has ordered all major temples in the state to remain closed till the end of the month due to coronavirus threat. The state endowments department has issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":1751,"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":[439,129,440,441],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750"}],"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=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}