Jagannath Puri (Puri) in Orissa

I travel all the way from west part of India to east part, which is almost 1700 km. i was in Orissa state for five days, so we went to the famous temple of Jagannath in "jagannath puri". I have never thought that it would be too much crowd in temple. We stay in the hotel which was walking distance to sea shore. Temple was 2 km from our hotel and there was no way to drive a car over there. Therefore we enjoyed the ride of hand cart to way to temple of jagannath. This temple looks so pleasant at the night time with lots of lightnings and candelas. The huge temple complex covers an area of 400,000 square feet. With its sepulchral richness and fluidity of the Orissan style of temple architecture, it is one of the most magnificent monument of India.

Jagannath temple in puri is famous hindu temple dedicated to jagannath (lord krishna) who is also calles the lord of universe. In the temple, the image of god has no lags, and only stumps of arms. together with jagannath are seated his brother balaram and sister subadra.

There are elaborated daily worship services. There are many festivals each year attended by thousands of people. The most important festival is "Rath Yatra" in June. The Rath carts themselves are some approximately 45 feet high and are pulled by the thousand of Pilgrims who turn up for the event. I went to visit this temple in may so i could see the preparation of the Rath Yatra in all over the temple place. The cart which going to use in, was very huge and beautiful. Although i couldn't able to attend the Rath yatra, i enjoyed there a lot.

The temple kitchen

The temple's kitchen is considered as the largest kitchen in India. Tradition maintains that all food cooked in the temple kitchens are supervised by the goddess "Mahalakshmi" herself. All food cooked following rules as prescribed by Hindu religious texts.