Temple Door Closes in Tirumala For Lunar Eclipse

Tirumala, 27 July 2018: The temple doors were closed in Tirumala on Friday evening at around 5pm in connection with lunar eclipse.

As the lunar eclipse forms between 11.54pm of Friday and lasts till 3.49am on Saturday, the temple doors were closed six hours prior as per tradition.

The doora will be reopened on Saturday at 4.15am with Suprabhata Seva followed by other daily rituals after performing Suddhi and Punyahavachanam.

TTD EO Anil Kumar Singhal, incharge CVSO Sivakumar Reddy, Temple DyEO Haridranath, Temple Peishkar Ramesh, VGO

Ravinder Reddy, Priests and others took part.