{"id":88281,"date":"2020-08-11T10:42:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T08:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=88281"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:13:09","slug":"ahead-of-janmashtami-vrindavans-iskcon-temple-sealed-as-priests-among-22-test-covid-19-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=88281","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of Janmashtami, Vrindavan&#8217;s ISKCON Temple Sealed as Priests Among 22 Test Covid-19 Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/IAaZtrt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Janmashtami, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) temple in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Vrindavan was sealed on Tuesday after 22 people, including priests tested positive for coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Movement of people has been restricted and the temple has been sealed,&#8221; officials said.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of Lord Krishna&#8217;s birthday, Vrindavan&#8217;s Chandrovodaya Temple has reportedly planned a virtual tour of the city as visit to the temples have been banned due to Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The main temples included in the virtual tour of the Vrindavan Dham are Vaishno Devi Temple, Vrindavan Chandroday Temple, Prem Mandir, ISKCON temple, The Krishna-Balaram Tree, Kaliya Dah ghat, Madan Mohan Temple, Banke Bihari Temple, Radha Damodar Dev Ji Temple, Nidhivan Temple, Radha Gopinath Temple, Chir Ghat and Yamuna river following in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Devotees can undertake the virtual journey through Zoom app or via the YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>Gokulashtami is a day dedicated to celebrating the birthday of Lord Krishna, who was born on ashtami (eighth) in the Krishna Paksha or the new moon phase of Bhadrapada (August-September).<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/india\/former-president-pranab-mukherjee-contracts-covid-19-as-infection-surge-continues-2776285.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/IAaZtrt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Janmashtami, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) temple in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Vrindavan was sealed on Tuesday after 22 people, including priests tested positive for coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116050,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88281\/revisions\/116050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}