Mosses are grown all over the monument. Long grasses are seen everywhere. Ceiling and walls have developed cracks, the statues of deities are broken, stolen and lost.
it has remained the question of mystery that in the era when there were no machines, elevators and lifts how devotees have managed to build such a magnificent structure an place such a heavy stone at the top.
These were invaders, but now the threat has come from its own people, Odisha government has decided to sell 35,272 acres of land belonging to Jagannath temple.