The official Twitter account of Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra (@ShriRamTeerth) has become the most followed among all temple social media accounts in India. With 602.3K followers, the account has surpassed other prominent temple handles.
Created in February 2020, a few months after the Supreme Court’s decision on November 9, 2019, to hand over the disputed land in Ayodhya for the construction of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple, the account provides updates on the temple’s construction and management.
Notable followers include Home Minister Amit Shah, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, UP Vidhan Sabha Speaker Satish Mahana, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Mauraya, and Champat Rai (International Vice President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and General Secretary of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra).
The second most followed temple on social media is Shri Siddhivinayak Temple (@SVTMumbai), Mumbai, with 220.6K followers, followed by Shree Jagannatha Temple Office, Puri (@SJTA_Puri SJTA), and Shree Jagannatha Temple, Puri (@JagannathaDhaam).
The social media handles of other temples, such as Somnath Temple, Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Shri Gorakhnath Mandir, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, and Saibaba Sansthan Trust Shirdi, also have substantial followers.
ISKCON (@iskcon), the official page of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, and the Golden Temple in Amritsar run by Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (@SGPCAmritsar), have 71.1K and 31.7K followers, respectively.
