Odisha: 500 kg silver to adorn Puri temple entrance

BHUBANESWAR: Around 500 kg silver, donated by a devotee for silver cladding of a door in the Jagannath Temple, was on Tuesday stored in the Puri district treasury.
The silver will be taken out from the treasury around one or two months before Rath Yatra next year for the start of the silver-plating work of Kalahata Dwar near the temple’s sanctum sanctorum.
“We have completed silver plating of seven doors — Jaya Bijaya, Bhogamandapa, Beherana, Sata Pahacha, Bimala Temple, Laxmi Temple and Adi Nrusingha Temple by using around 2,000 kg silver donated by the devotee,” a senior temple officer said. Inspired By