Contact this site

One address, read by a person. Corrections and questions about the temples both belong here. Anything to do with a booking, a darshan ticket or a priest belongs with the temple trust, and this page says where that line sits.

Write to us about

Four kinds of message get read first, because all four make a page better.

A correction, with a sourceA timing, price, distance or rule on any page that has moved. Name the page and where the correct detail can be read: the temple notice, the trust website, the railway listing, or a photo of the board.
A broken link or a page that will not loadWorth sending. It is usually fixed the same day, and a dead internal link on this site is a bug rather than a matter of taste.
A question about a templeAnything the guide does not answer: the walk, the queue, the shoe stand, the last bus out. Questions people actually ask at the gate are what the pages are built from.
A business enquiryAffiliate partnerships, advertising, licensing a photograph or reusing text. Say what the arrangement is. If it needs a paid ranking or a favourable review, the answer is no.

What not to send

These three do not reach the temple, whatever happens to the message. They are handled by the trust.

Booking a room or a darshan ticket

This site sells nothing and holds no inventory. Rooms are booked with the property or a booking site, and any paid darshan is bought from the temple trust counter or the trust website. The booking page for each temple explains what the trust sells and what it does not.

Asking for darshan, a pass or a place in an aarti

This site cannot arrange darshan or a slot for anyone. The aarti list, the queue and any booking are run by the temple trust alone, and a request sent here will not reach them.

Hiring a priest or booking a puja

No priest, puja or ritual service is offered, arranged or recommended here. Anyone offering to do it for a fee through this site is not connected to it, and the temple trust office is the only place to ask.

The address

hello@jyotirlingaguide.com

There is no contact form on this site yet: there is no server behind it to receive one, and a form that posts into nothing would lose your message without saying so. Email is the only channel for now. It is read by a person, not by an autoresponder.

What happens after you write

You get a reply when a person can answer it, which on most days means within a few days and on a bad week means longer. A message that asks for something this site cannot do, such as a darshan slot or a room, may be answered only with a pointer to the temple trust.

A correction that comes with a source is checked against it, and if it holds, the page is fixed and rechecked. The check date on that page moves when the fix lands, so the page shows when it was last looked at rather than when it was written. Nothing else about you is kept: see theprivacy and terms page.

Before you write

Three questions that arrive most often, each already answered on a page.

What are the temple timings, and which aarti needs a booking?

Darshan hours shift with the season and the ritual calendar, so every temple has a booking and darshan page carrying the schedule and the source it was checked against. Start with Kashi Vishwanath to see how the page reads, or open any temple from the list of twelve.

Where can I stay near a temple gate?

The stay index covers all twelve, cheapest option first: trust rooms and dharamshalas, then town hotels, then the nearest city. A single temple reads as Varanasi, for example.

How do I reach a temple from my city?

Each temple has a how to reach page for the railhead, the airport and the last mile, and a distance page for the trip from a city such as Delhi or Mumbai.

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