KEDARNATH
TEMPLE - ART & CULTURE
News: Mobile phones, photography banned in
Kedarnath Temple
What's
in the news?
● Devotees
have been banned from taking photographs and making videos on the premises of
the Kedarnath Temple.
Key
takeaways:
● The
move comes after a recent video of a woman blogger proposing to her boyfriend
in front of the temple went viral.
● Shri
Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee has put up boards on the temple premises
which read, "do not enter the temple premises with mobile phones; any kind
of photography and videography is strictly prohibited inside the temple and you
are under the surveillance of CCTV cameras".
● The
temple has also asked the people to wear "decent clothes".
Kedarnath
Temple:
● Kedarnath
Temple is a Hindu shrine dedicated to Lord
Shiva.
● It
is located in Uttarakhand on the Garhwal
Himalayan range near the Mandakini River.
● The
Kedarnath Temple is one of the twelve
Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva.
● Kedarnath
forms one of the four sites of the Char
Dham Pilgrimage.
● Standing
magnificently at an altitude of 3,580mts offers scenic beauty.
● Lord
Shiva in his Sadashiva form is
worshipped as a conical rock formation inside the temple.
● The
Temple is built adjacent to the site of an earlier temple believed to have been
built by the Pandavas.
Chardham
Pilgrimage:
● The
Char Dham means the four dhams is a set of four pilgrimage sites such as
Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath which is very auspicious in the
Hindu belief.
○ Yamunotri
– This Shrine is dedicated to River Yamuna.
○ Gangotri
– This shrine is dedicated to goddess Ganges.
○ Kedarnath
– This temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva in the form of Kedar.
○ Badrinath
– This temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu in the form of Badrinath.
● In
the Hindu sect, it is believed that a person visiting all the four sites will
attain Moksha (Salvation).
● The Ministry of Road Transport and
Highways is responsible for the Chardham Project.