A video has been shared in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts in April 2020 alongside a claim it shows a temple in India that was turned into a COVID-19 quarantine centre by the state government.
Below is a screenshot of the misleading post:, The post’s caption reads: “Kanipakam Ganesh temple, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, is being used as a quarentaine center by the Sickular AP of Reverend CM Jagan!! Hope Mosques and Churches are also taken for the same purpose.”, The Kanipakam Ganesh temple, also known as the Sri Kanipakam Varasiddhi Vinayaka temple, is located in Kanipakam, a town in the Chittoor district of the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is referred to as CM Jagan in the Facebook post, is the chief minister of the state., The video was also shared alongside a similar claim\xa0here and here on Facebook; and here and here on Twitter., The claim is false., The video in fact shows a lodging facility called Sri Ganesh Sadan, which is located about a quarter of a\xa0kilometre\xa0from the Kanipakam temple, according to Google Maps., Below is a screenshot of the distance between the two buildings on Google Maps:, At the video’s 13-second mark, the footage shows a sign for the Sri Ganesh Sadan facility, which matches photos published on Google Images here by visitors of the guest house., Below is a screenshot comparison of the building in the misleading post (L) and a Google image of Sri Ganesh Sadan (R):, "Google images of the Kanipakam Ganesh temple show how the temples entrance differs from the building seen in the misleading Facebook post.", Below are screenshots of Google images of the temple:, A report published\xa0here\xa0on April 7, 2020\xa0by Indian newspaper The Hans India quoted police as stating the quarantine centre was\xa0located at Sri Ganesh Sadan, not inside the temple., , , Copyright © AFP 2017-2020.  All rights reserved.  Users can access and consult this website and use the share features available for personal, private, and non-commercial purposes.  Any other use, in particular any reproduction, communication to the public or distribution of the content of this website, in whole or in part, for any other purpose and/or by any other means, without a specific licence agreement signed with AFP, is strictly prohibited.  The subject matter depicted or included via links within the Fact Checking content is provided to the extent necessary for correct understanding of the verification of the information concerned.  AFP has not obtained any rights from the authors or copyright owners of this third party content and shall incur no liability in this regard.  AFP and its logo are registered trademarks.
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