Puri, the holy city of Orissa has a
remarkable value in the field of Art, Architecture, Literature,
religion and tradition. Puri is the seat of Lord Jagannath, the
Lord of Universe. This place is an important religious centre for
hindus. The sanctity of the place is well known to all the
pilgrims of the world. The town being situated on the sea beach of
the Bay of Bengal. Puri has a very long, broad sand beach. The sea
produces very big waves here. It attracts many national and
international tourists because of its beautiful long beach and
world famous Jagannath Temple. The place to start a pilgrimage is
here and Puri is a pilgrim's destination too. There are many
ashrams and sacred temples in Puri.
Here you will find news about
Puri and Jagannath Dham . On
this page we are mainly adding news concerning tourism,
events, weather reports, developments, fresh local
attractions, environmental issues, celebrations and
traveling in Puri in general.
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Adi Shankaracharya
Sri Govardhan Math (Peetham), located in Puri is 2492
years old established by Bhagvatpaada Adi Shankaracharya
with an aim of rejuvenating the Vedic Sanatan Dharma and
establishing the “Dharma” regulated, unbiased and
extortion-free regime.
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All members
of our team is currently living on the Puri and we started
our work with this website in February 2003. Until this day,
it has had more than 3,5 million unique visitors. The
website is today including over 100 pages and about 1000
selected photos. This website is made by Bulu Pattanaik and
Rakesh Bera. A registered Company Puri Online Private
Limited. We are a small team of Puri, dedicatedly working
for Orissa.
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