{"id":2281,"date":"2020-04-09T16:04:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2020-04-09T16:04:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:34:22","slug":"covid-19-lockdown-temples-closed-across-india-on-occasion-of-hanuman-jayanti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=2281","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 lockdown: Temples closed across India on occasion of \u2018Hanuman Jayanti\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\"> In Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Varanasi, devotees were seen worshipping from outside the temple premises, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/india\/video-covid-19-temples-closed-on-occasion-of-hanuman-jayanti-amid-lockdown-2820183\">DNA India<\/a> has reported.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Temples are closed on the auspicious occasion of \u2018Hanuman Jayanti\u2019 across India on April 08. In Delhi, various temples of Lord Hanuman are closed amid coronavirus lockdown. Nationwide lockdown has been enforced as a precautionary measure to arrest the spread of dreadful coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> \u2018Hanuman Jayanti\u2019 is celebrated on full moon day during Chaitra month to commemorate the birth of Lord Hanuman. In Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Varanasi, devotees were seen worshipping from outside the temple premises. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>The temple authorities have also put a notice board stating that the temples will be closed to deal with the spread of coronavirus. Similarly, in Assam\u2019s Dibrugarh and UP\u2019s Ayodhya, temples wore deserted look on auspicious occasion of \u2018Hanuman Jayanti\u2019 due to COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/india\/video-covid-19-temples-closed-on-occasion-of-hanuman-jayanti-amid-lockdown-2820183\">threat.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Image Source: www.trawell.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Varanasi, devotees were seen worshipping from outside the temple premises, DNA India has reported. Temples are closed on the auspicious occasion of \u2018Hanuman Jayanti\u2019 across India on April 08. In Delhi, various temples of Lord Hanuman are closed amid coronavirus lockdown. Nationwide lockdown has been enforced as a precautionary measure to arrest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":2282,"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":[20,660,670,671,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281"}],"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=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}