{"id":16816,"date":"2020-04-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/04\/23\/tamil-nadu-temples-take-pujas-to-devotees-with-live-stream\/"},"modified":"2020-04-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T12:00:00","slug":"tamil-nadu-temples-take-pujas-to-devotees-with-live-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/04\/23\/tamil-nadu-temples-take-pujas-to-devotees-with-live-stream\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu: Temples Take Pujas to Devotees with Live-Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/75261054.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&#038;utm_medium=text&#038;utm_campaign=cppst\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.goibibo.com\/t_tg_fs\/chennai-arulmigu-kapaleeswarar-temple-149360662869-orijgp.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>CHENNAI, INDIA, April 21, 2020 (Times of India): Monday onwards, the city&#8217;s pious who have had to cancel their temple visits and summer pilgrimages in light of the Covid-19 outbreak, can be rest assured to not miss out on the year&#8217;s most anticipated temple festivals. Thanks to Hindu religious and charitable endowments (HR&#038;CE) department, which after much contemplation, has finally agreed to allow a few temples in the state to live-stream the auspicious occasions. Among them is the Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple&#8217;s celebrated annual marriage festival. Sources in the department say live-streaming the event will especially delight devotees, who have been constantly calling to know if there was a way to access photos and videos of the festival sitting at home. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of now, we have permitted live-streaming of pujas, rituals and festivals at Chennai&#8217;s Kapaleeswarar Temple, Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple and Samayapuram Mariamman Temple. In the coming days, more temples will be given the go-ahead to live-stream important events,&#8221; HR&#038;CE commissioner Phanindra Reddy told TOI. Temple officials will be sharing live-streaming links ahead of events on their social media pages and through newspapers. &#8220;We will allow those recording the puja inside only a few minutes ahead of the event. Social distancing will be strictly followed and every crew member entering the premises will be given hand sanitizers,&#8221; said temple executive officer D. Kaveri. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source CHENNAI, INDIA, April 21, 2020 (Times of India): Monday onwards, the city&#8217;s pious who have had to cancel their,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}