All temples under the Shri Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee, including the Badrinath and Kedarnath shrines, will close at 4 pm on Saturday due to the lunar eclipse, reported news agency PTI.

Temple Committee chairman Ajendra Ajay said on Friday that the lunar eclipse will start at 01:04 pm on October 28 and the 'Sutak' (inauspicious time) period will begin nine hours before that, reported PTI.