Jammu and Kashmir: Uma Bhagwati temple reopens in Anantnag after 34 years

Srinagar: After 34 years, the doors of ancient temple Uma Bhagwati were opened for the devotees in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district.

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai on Sunday threw open the temple for devotees at Brariangan in Shangus tehsil of south Kashmir.

During the re-opening ceremony, the idol of goddess Uma, brought from Rajasthan, was placed in the sanctum sanctorum.

The Union Minister, while addressing the gathering of devotees, expressed confidence that a large number of devotees shall visit the temple on its re-opening.

He said that the government’s commitment towards a developed J&K and its own syncretic culture shall go a long way to develop J&K into a prosperous and peaceful region.

Notably, Uma Bhagwati temple at Brariangan is an ancient shrine where devotees used to come in large numbers from different parts of the J&K to pay obeisance to the goddess.

The temple is situated amidst five springs including Brahma Kund, Vishnu Kund, Rudra Kund and Shiv Shakti Kund.

The Union Minister was accompanied by Anantnag deputy commissioner Syeed Fakhrudin Hamid, senior superintendent of police G V Sundeep Chakravarthy, officers from the district administration and office bearers of Uma Bhagwati Asthapan Trust.