THE NEW PURI JAGGANATH DHAM | SHREE MANDIR PARIKRAMA

The Shreemandira Parikrama Project at Puri's Jagannath Temple which aims to visually enhance and provide a number of amenities for devotees, is all set to be inaugurated tomorrow in front of numerous guests and dignitaries.
The Odisha government is all set to inaugurate the Shreemandira Parikrama project, a Rs 800-crore heritage corridor around Puri’s Jagannath Temple. This is among the spate of projects that were launched to transform Puri into a world-class heritage location. Decorating and developing the holy coastal town has been a central project for the Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha, since the devastation wreaked on the town by Cyclone Fani in 2019.
The Shreemandira Parikrama is a 75-meter corridor around Shree Jagannath Temple at Puri, which has been designed to produce security to the temple, provide basic amenities and numerous facilities to the visitors and enhance the place visually, creating a ‘connect’ with the devotees. “The intent of the project is to provide expansive, unobstructed corridors around the Meghanada Pacheri for giving an opportunity to devotees and pilgrims to have visual connect with the Temple, Neelchakra and Meghanada Pacheri. Shreemandira Parikrama will also serve the function of providing amenities for pilgrims and for strengthening safety and security of the temple and devotees,” the project website reads. The project involves the construction of facilities like a Green Buffer Zone, a Public Convenience Zone with facilities for devotees, a path for ceremonial processions of deities, a footpath for smooth pedestrian flow around the corridor among other facilities.
The Jagannath Temple is an important Hindu temple dedicated to Jagannath, a form of Vishnu-one of the trinity of supreme divinity in Hinduism. It is located in Puri in the state of Odisha, situated on the eastern coast of India. King Indradyumna of Avanti built the main temple of Jagannath at Puri
The temple is famous for its annual Ratha Yatra, or chariot festival, in which the three principal deities are pulled on huge and elaborately decorated raths, or temple cars. The worship is performed by the Bhil Sabar tribal priests, as well as priests of other communities in the temple. Unlike the stone and metal icons found in most Hindu temples, the image of Jagannath is made of wood, and is ceremoniously replaced every 12 or 19 years by an exact replica. The temple is one of the Char Dham pilgrimage sites. It is also famous because many legends believe that Krishna's heart was placed here, and the material that it is made from damages the heart, so they have to change it every seven years.
The temple is sacred to all Hindus, and especially in those of the Vaishnava traditions. Many great Vaishnava saints, such as Ramanujacharya, Madhvacharya, Nimbarkacharya, Vallabhacharya and Ramananda were closely associated with the temple.Ramanuja established the Emar Matha in the south-eastern corner of the temple, and Adi Shankaracharya established the Govardhan Math, which is the seat of one of the four Shankaracharyas. It is also of particular significance to the followers of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, whose founder, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, was attracted to the deity, Jagannath, and lived in Puri for many years.
Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday dedicated the Srimandir Parikrama Project to the public under which a 75-metre heritage corridor has been built around the perimeter of the 12th century Jagannath temple with facilities like circumamblulation by the devotees, smoother pedestrian flow, building of cloak .

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