Goa temple bans entry of foreigners, others impose dress code

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Congratulation to the temple trusts who taken such an appropriate action to maintain the sanctity of temples. All temples ‘ trusts should follow such steps to maintain the sanctity of temple !

Panaji (Goa): Scantily-clad tourists in beach wear have not gone down well with temple authorities in Goa with some laying down a strict dress code for visitors and another barring foreigners.

While the Mahalasa Narayani Temple at Mardol, 20 km from Panaji has put up a board stating that "Entry Restricted for Foreign Tourists", the Mangueshi Temple at Mangueshi village, and Ramnathi temple at Ponda have put a dress code in place.

"We are not against foreigners, but their dresses and conduct in the temple is highly objectionable, so the management has decided to ban them," said Vinod Kamat, President, Mahalasa Narayani Temple.

The locals were recently outraged after some foreigners, out of ignorance, wore garlands that were supposed to be offered to the deity.

"They would wear garlands themselves, and later place them before the deity, which was highly objectionable," Kamat said.

"There has to be some discipline." Before the ban, on an average a hundred foreigners visited the temple every day.

Mangueshi Temple, located next to Mahalsa Temple, has imposed dress restrictions. The temple president, Jayant Mandurkar, said the dress code was same for both domestic as well as foreign tourists.

Source: Yahoo

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