Places of religious worship in Maharashtra, which were shut due to the imposition of the lockdown in March, reopened on Monday with devotees visiting some of the prominent temples and shrines in the state.
The reopening of the places of worship have coincided with the Diwali ‘Padwa’, which is an important festival in the state.
Devotees were seen visiting Lord Vitthal’s temple at Pandharpur in Satara, Saibaba’s shrine in Shirdi, Goddess Tulja Bhavani’s temple in Osmanabad and the famous Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai.
The Siddhivinayak temple’s chairman Aadesh Bandekar on Sunday said that only 1,000 devotees will be allowed inside the temple every day, in staggered time slots to be booked via a mobile phone application.
As per the standard operating procedures released by the state government, religious places located out of Covid-19 containment zones have been allowed to reopen as per…