Srisailam temple to reopen from June 10

Srisailam temple to reopen from June 10

State Bureau

Srisailam  08.06.2020

The Brahmaramba-Mallikarjuna temple in Srisailam will open its doors for devotees from June 10 after a trial run on June 8 and 9 with temple authorities and locals. According to the temple’s Executive Officer KS Rama Rao, free darshan and other services need to be booked on the website “www.srisailamonline.com” and only the confirmed devotees would be allowed to visit the temple.

The temple will be open for visiting from 6 am to 7 pm every day. Accommodation for devotees is open only for 24 hours, with a condition that only 2 persons can stay in a room. Abhishekams inside the sanctum santorum and VIP darshans stay cancelled as of now and the temple authorities have urged devotees living in red zones of the country not to visit the temple. Services for offering hair, taking a holy dip inside Pathalaganga and other water bodies, have been prohibited.

Basar set to reopen

The ancient Sri Gnana Saraswathi Devasthanam of Basar will be open for devotees from Monday. The temple was closed as part of the lockdown on March 20. Authorities of Basar said that arrangements have been made to resume darshans for devotees at the temple after a gap of 78 days.

They informed that sanitisers would be kept in the shrine for cleaning hands of devotees, besides checking temperature of visitors using thermal screening equipment. Premises of the temple will be cleaned by sodium hypochlorite solution every day

The authorities said that the temple will be open for darshan from 7 am to 6 pm. They sought cooperation from the devotees in keeping the premises clean and in preventing the spread of novel coronavirus.