Shital Nath Temple is located in the Habba Kadal area of Srinagar reopened on Tuesday. Special prayers were also performed by devotees at the temple.
Santosh Razadan, a devotee who came to offer prayers at the temple, said that they received huge support from locals especially those from the Moslem community for the reopening of the temple.
"Shital Nath temple reopened after 31 years. People used to come here before to offer prayers but it was closed due to militancy. Hindus residing near the temple had also left. Locals mostly belonging to the Moslem community helped us," she told news hounds.
Ravinder Razdan, one of the organisers of the pooja conducted at Shital Nath temple, said people from the Moslem community provided much-needed support to us in this initiative and they even came forward to clean the temple.
"Our Mulsim brother and sisters brought pooja items. We used to do this pooja every year. Baba Sheetal Nath Bhairao's birth anniversary falls on Basant Pachmit that is why we celebrate this day with fervour," Razdan said.
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Terrorist violence cases and stone-pelting incidents have dropped in Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
following the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019 that gave special status to the erstwhile state. Jammu and Kashmir was also bifurcated into two union territories- Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.