Golden Temple, Sripuram – Useful Tips
Here are few suggestions, useful tips, do's and
don'ts for a first-time visitor:
Once inside the complex, there are proper guidance,
assistance and also an information center inside the complex for the visitors
to know more about the functions of this temple.
There is ample car parking space available @
Rs.20/- per vehicle.
Here, the security measures are more stringent as
alike Sri Balaji Temple of Tirupathi. Long queue makes one exhaust soon, more
so during the summer days. It is recommended to take drinking water bottles
& towels to fight the thirst and sweat.
Please do not carry your Mobile phones and cameras
which are strictly prohibited inside the temple premises. Separate counters are
there to deposit your cell phones, cameras as also your foot-wear. It is highly
recommended not to take it with you to the temple at the first place, as it is
not going to help you in any way as you have to deposit the same at the
counters before entering the complex.
As is in Tirupathi, here too the queue control
system exists. Some special structures erected to control and regularize the
moving crowd is put up that extends up to 3 kms stretch from the temple. From
here, you are allowed to move inside the star shaped (Sri Chakra) corridor of
the temple, only after proper security check by the security personnel both men
& women; there you will have to undergo strict security checks viz.
scanning, frisking and all the sort of personal/belongings etc. Senior citizens
are accompanied by the escorts from the temple are allowed to join in the main
queue directly, but no family members are allowed to accompany them. Free wheel
chair for physically challenged persons and elderly persons are also available
and they are directly taken to the temple by the volunteers of Sri Narayani
Peedam. No family members allowed to escort or accompany them, as the Golden
Temple authorities arrange to give a very good care for them.
At the exit point, the volunteers of the Ashram
would hand you prasadam viz. Kum-kum and Sweet rice, Laddu or Pongal. For those
who wish to stay overnight or a couple of days, hotel accommodation can be
arranged through the administrators, Sri
Narayani Peedam -
who maintains a hotel, hospital, Orphans home etc.