Walls of Kashi Vishvanath temple’s sanctum sanctorum gold plated

The partitions of the sanctum sanctorum of the Kashi Vishvanath temple right here has been gold plated.

A complete of 37 kg of gold was utilized in finishing the duty of masking the partitions with the valuable metallic, the temple administration mentioned on Tuesday and added that it might now begin the work of gold-plating the door frames of the temple’s sanctum sanctorum.

The door frames earlier had been lined with silver which might be eliminated now earlier than beginning the gold-plating it, they mentioned.

Varanasi Divisional Commissioner and chairman of the Kashi Visvanath Temple Board Deepak Agarwal mentioned a devotee of Baba Vishvanath had expressed his need to make a secret donation of the gold for the aim.

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He mentioned the devotee’s title is being saved confidential owing to his situation for anonymity.

In line with unconfirmed reviews, a devotee belonging to southern India has donated the gold for the aim and the donated metallic weighs equal to the load of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mom Heeraben.

Neither the temple administration nor the district administration has confirmed these reviews.

The administration has not disclosed both how a lot gold was donated to the temple.

It merely mentioned 37 kg of gold has been utilised to cowl the partitions of the sanctum santorum of the temple.

The chief govt officer of the temple, Sunil Kumar Verma, mentioned a plan had been made for gold-plating the sanctum santorum many tears in the past.

However at the moment the specialists of the Banaras Hindu College had opined that the partitions of the sanctum santorum may not have the ability to bear the load of the metallic and that’s why the work had been stopped.

A workforce of 10 expert staff are engaged in gold-plating the sanctum sanctorum, he mentioned.

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