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Uma Joshi
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Place of Religious Importance
I had visited this temple earlier about 8 years back. The only difference I found was the thoughtless infrastructural development.
The rickshaw or your private vehicle can drop you till a point and after that you just have to walk endlessly to reach any temple or ghat in kashi. The richshawwallas will tell you that they will drop you till the entrance but that’s not true or even possible. Please be careful while fixing the price. However, there are wheelchair puller available here and they can drop people to their destination for a charge.
The waiting time here is always long, so a ticket is preferable. These tickets are available at booths managed by authorities. I suggest not buying it from anywhere else but these booths ONLY.
Once you have the ticket, you enter the premises through one of the worst security checks.
The entrance security disallowed my selfie stick (which I had decided to keep in the locker but that was inside temple premises) and a pack of wet tissue and wanted to confiscate it, but I approached the ticket booth and requested them to help in the regard and it was taken care of and duly returned.
After we entered the main gates, we put our footwear on the shoe racks and approached the locker facility and submitted mobile phones and large hand bag that we had with us. Small purses and money pouches are allowed inside. The lockers being limited as compared to the devotees visiting, one might have to wait for it to be available.
One has to go through a couple of security checks before you can enter the temple premises. There is no specific prohibited item in this unique security checks. Whatever the security likes (specially the female security), is termed as prohibited and forcefully, abusively and permanently confiscated. I and my companions were shocked to lose lip balms, pocket VapoRub’s, expensive stationery items (pens and dairy), sanitizers, cosmetic items, etc, never to get it back.
I suggest you keep everything in the lockers.
Once you enter the premises after losing your valuables to the security, you have to be vigilant and find your queue if you have the paid ticket. After checking your ticket, you will be asked to join the line which goes from anywhere. You have to be careful!
After about an hour, you get the darshan from outside the garbhgruh. Not allowed till the Shivling, one can just view it for a fraction of a second from outside before the security pulls you out.
Gyanvapi well is located right in front of one of the doors of the garbhgruh. The well has been filled up and closed and covered with nirmalya.
Right next to it is the huge Nandi facing the supposed Shivling in the ablution area of the disputed gyanvapi masjid.
Darshan of this Shivlinga is NOT Available and it is not even visible from anywhere as the disputed area has been covered.
Once out from the temple premise at gate number 10 there is an approach way to the manikarnika Ghat. one can get a decent view from there of the ganges but its a oneway. once you go to the ghat from here you cant come back and have to forcibly go through all security checks over again and get in the general queue. So be careful where ever you enter. Its completely mismanaged.
I had visited this temple earlier about 8 years back. The only difference I found was the thoughtless infrastructural development.
The rickshaw or your private vehicle can drop you till a point and after that you just have to walk endlessly to reach any temple or ghat in kashi. The richshawwallas will tell you that they will drop you till the entrance but that’s not true or even possible. Please be careful while fixing the price. However, there are wheelchair puller available here and they can drop people to their destination for a charge.
The waiting time here is always long, so a ticket is preferable. These tickets are available at booths managed by authorities. I suggest not buying it from anywhere else but these booths ONLY.
Once you have the ticket, you enter the premises through one of the worst security checks.
The entrance security disallowed my selfie stick (which I had decided to keep in the locker but that was inside temple premises) and a pack of wet tissue and wanted to confiscate it, but I approached the ticket booth and requested them to help in the regard and it was taken care of and duly returned.
After we entered the main gates, we put our footwear on the shoe racks and approached the locker facility and submitted mobile phones and large hand bag that we had with us. Small purses and money pouches are allowed inside. The lockers being limited as compared to the devotees visiting, one might have to wait for it to be available.
One has to go through a couple of security checks before you can enter the temple premises. There is no specific prohibited item in this unique security checks. Whatever the security likes (specially the female security), is termed as prohibited and forcefully, abusively and permanently confiscated. I and my companions were shocked to lose lip balms, pocket VapoRub’s, expensive stationery items (pens and dairy), sanitizers, cosmetic items, etc, never to get it back.
I suggest you keep everything in the lockers.
Once you enter the premises after losing your valuables to the security, you have to be vigilant and find your queue if you have the paid ticket. After checking your ticket, you will be asked to join the line which goes from anywhere. You have to be careful!
After about an hour, you get the darshan from outside the garbhgruh. Not allowed till the Shivling, one can just view it for a fraction of a second from outside before the security pulls you out.
Gyanvapi well is located right in front of one of the doors of the garbhgruh. The well has been filled up and closed and covered with nirmalya.
Right next to it is the huge Nandi facing the supposed Shivling in the ablution area of the disputed gyanvapi masjid.
Darshan of this Shivlinga is NOT Available and it is not even visible from anywhere as the disputed area has been covered.
Once out from the temple premise at gate number 10 there is an approach way to the manikarnika Ghat. one can get a decent view from there of the ganges but its a oneway. once you go to the ghat from here you cant come back and have to forcibly go through all security checks over again and get in the general queue. So be careful where ever you enter. Its completely mismanaged.