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temples in Pakistan
The major Hindu temples in Pakistan are Shri Hinglaj Mata temple (whose annual Hinglaj Yatra
is the largest Hindu pilgrimage in Pakistan, which is participated by more than 250,000
pilgrims),[1] Shri Ramdev Pir temple (whose annual Ramdevpir mela in the temple is the second
largest Hindu pilgrimage in Pakistan,[2] Umarkot Shiv Mandir (famous for its annual Shivrathri
festival, which is one of the biggest religious festivals in Pakistan.,[3] Churrio Jabal Durga Mata
Temple (famous for Shivrathri celebrations which is attended by 200,000 pilgrims) etc[4]
Kotli District
Banganga Temple at Khuiratta[6]
Mirpur District
Baba Balaji Temple at Ratta, Dadyal
Muzaffarabad District
Sita Ram Temple at Muzaffarabad City[11]
Neelum District
Sharada Peeth at Sharda
Poonch District
Mandhol Sun Temple at Mandhole
Balochistan
Baba Chandragup is a mud volcano. It is an important stop for pilgrims on their way to the
shrine of Shri Hinglaj Mata temple. The volcano is considered as the embodiment of Lord
Shiva[13]
Harnai District
Agrasen Maharaj Temple , Harnai
Kachhi District
Sant MadhooDas Temple at Bhag Tehsil.
Kalat District
Kalat Kali Mata Temple at Kalat
Khuzdar District
Ramdev Ji Mandir , Gajozai
Loralai District
Sanatan Dharm Mandir
Mastung District
Shiva Mandir at Mastung.It has a tree with three branches representing Brahma,Vishnu and
Mahesh.
Nasirabad District
Ram Mandir, Nuttal
Quetta District
Arya Samaj Temple at Quetta[14]
Zhob District
Hindu temple, Zhob
Islamabad
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Abbottabad District
Araya Temple at Nawanshehr Area (in ruins)
Haripur District
Bara Dari Temple at Sarai Saleh
Karak District
Shri Paramhans Dayal Ji Maharaj at Teri[a][25]
Kohat District
Valmiki Mandir
Malakand District
Valmiki Mandir at Dargai
Mansehra District
Bareri Mata/Durga Temple and Shrine on Bareri Hill, (no longer in regular use but sometimes
visited by pilgrims and tourists. The edicts of Ashoka are inscribed on three large boulders
nearby.)[26]
Mardan District
Laxmi Narain Mandir
Nowshera District
Shiv Mandir
Peshawar District
Balmiki Mandir at Kalibari[29]
Nandi Mandir
Swat District
Vishnu temple [35]
Punjab
Attock District
Baradari Temple at Attock Khurd
Bahawalpur District
Kala Dhari Mandir
Bahawalnagar District
Govinda Mandir , Minchanabad
Bhakkar District
Old Sheraan Wala Temple at Main Bazar
Chakwal District
Katasraj Temple at Katas Village
Chiniot District
Bara Mandir was built by Maharaja Gulab Singh. [37]
Faisalabad District
Hanuman Mandir at Ashrafabad
Gujranwala District
Sheetla Mata Mandir at Sohdra
Gujrat District
Old Temple at Sook Kalan
Hafizabad District
Guru Nanik Temple at Kaleke
Jhang District
Bavalakh nath mandir
Jhelum District
Hindu Temple at Mirzabad
Kasur District
Darbar Baba Lal Shahbaz Qalandar at Raja Jang
Khanewal District
Hindu Temple at Mian Channun
Khushab District
Amb Shareef Temple in Sakesar
Lahore District
Basuli Hanuman Temple at Anarkali Bazaar
Shri 1008 Bhagwan Adinath Jain Temple at Anarkali Bazaar, Jain Mandir Chowk
Layyah District
Mae Mata Temple at Layyah
Lodhran District
Hindu Temple at Danwaran
Mianwali District
Mari Temple near Kalabagh at Mari Indus[40]
Multan District
Aditya Sun Temple at Suraj Kund
Muzaffargarh District
krishna temple
Narowal District
Bhairavnath Temple at Zafarwal
Okara District
Hindu Temple at Depalpur
Pakpattan District
Parnami Temple at Malka Hans[41]
Rajanpur district
krishna temple
Rawalpindi District
Shri Krishna Temple at Saddar in Rawalpindi city[42]
Sahiwal District
shiva mandir
Sargodha District
Baoliwala Temple at Bhera[52][53]
Sheikhupura District
Hindu temple
Sialkot District
Jagannath Temple at Hassanpura, Sialkot
Vehari District
shiva mandir
Sindh
Parbrahm Ashram
Badin District
Shiv mandir
Dadu District
Gorakh Hill of Gorakhnath
Shiva Mandir Johi at Johi
Ghotki District
Raharki Sahib at Raharki 5 km away from Daharki (Pakistan's biggest Hindu temple)
Hyderabad District
ISKCON Hyderabad, Sindh
Jacobabad District
Baba Kalyan Dass Mandir
Jamshoro District
Bhole Shankar Mandir at Kotri
Darya Lal Sankat Mochan Mandir (also called Jhoolay Lal Mandir) at Custom House
ISKCON Karachi
Naval Mandir at Ranchore Lines is a 200 sq yards pale yellow stone walled temple with
polished marble surfaces and clay statues of Santoshi Mata, Kali Mata, Vishnu, Shiva,
Ganesha, Hanuman, Guru Nanak and Rama and Nandi where Holi and Diwali are
celebrated.[64]
Panchmukhi Hanuman Temple at Soldier Bazar, is 1500 years old and houses a 2.5m tall
statue of lord Hanuman. Renovation of the temple commenced in 2012 and it is popular
among Maharashtrian, Sindhi and Balochi devotees.[68][69] Half of the temple's 2,609 square
feet of land has been encroached upon by Muslims, The temple has won back four of six
small plots after the lease was cancelled by a district court and is still fighting to reclaim two
remaining plots.[70]
Panchmukhi Hanuman Temple in Karachi's Soldier Bazaar
Shree Ram Dev Pir Mandir at Sadder town near Cantt Railway Station
Kashmore District
Baba Garib Das Darbar at Gospur, Kandhkot
Khairpur District
Jhulay Lal Temple at Hindu Mohalla, Choondiko
Larkana District
ISKCON Larkana
Krishna temple
Shivala temple
Matiari District
Jhulelal Mandir at Oderolal Village
Shiv Mandir
Sanghar District
Khori Darbar mandir at khipro
Shri Shyam Dam Mandir, north of Baqar Khan Nizamani and west of Shahdadpur
Sujawal District
Shiv Mandir at Takanu in Jati Sujawal
Shikarpur District
Hanuman Mandir at Shikarpur
Sukkur District
ISKCON Sukkur
Kalka Cave Temple in Rohri, Sindh[72] is a temple of Kalaratri (Kali), one of the nine forms of
Navadurga, believed to have appeared here on her journey to Hinglaj in Balochistan.[73]
Kalka Cave Temple in Rohri
Tharparkar District
Anchlasar at Nagarparkar
Thatta District
Baba Srichand Darbar
Umerkot District
Aasmaniyan Ro Thaan at Umarkot
Mandir at Cheelh
Majisa Batyani and Dado Sawai Singh Rathor Thaan (Dori Than) near moti chowk Amarkot
Threats
A survey carried out by All Pakistan Hindu Rights Movement Pakistan's revealed that out of 428
Hindu temples in Pakistan that existed before Partition only around 20 survive today and they
remain neglected by the Evacuee Trust Property Board which controls those while the rest had
been converted for other uses.[77] Nearly 1000 active and former Hindu temples were attacked in
1992 riots and in other attacks like 2014 Larkana temple attack, 2019 Ghotki riots, 2020 Karak
temple attack etc[78] Idols in some temples in Pakistan have gone missing and the ponds
outside those temples that are considered necessary for a holy dip are drying up due to neglect
which has irked the Supreme Court of Pakistan.[79] However some of the closed temples has
been reopened following the Court rulings,[80] and government intervention.[81]
See also
Hinduism in Pakistan
Minorities in Pakistan
References
Notelist
Further reading
Arun Shourie and Sita Ram Goel, 1990, Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them"
Anthony Gordon O'Brien, 1996, The Ancient Chronology of Thar: The Bhāṭṭika, Laukika, and
Sindh Eras
2. "Hindu's converge at Ramapir Mela near Karachi seeking divine help for their security" (https://m.times
ofindia.com/india/Hindus-converge-at-Ramapir-Mela-near-Karachi-seeking-divine-help-for-their-securit
y/articleshow/16557691.cms) . Times of India. 26 September 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
3. "The thriving Shiva festival in Umarkot is a reminder of Sindh's Hindu heritage" (https://www.dawn.co
m/news/1392074) . 27 February 2018. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
7. Forgotten Atrocities: Memoirs of a Survivor of the 1947 Partition of India By Bal K. Gupta (Page No. 5)
(https://books.google.co.in/books?id=N2BIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA5&dq=hindu+temple+at+Kotli,+pakista
n&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiok9_6xpbrAhWXA3IKHdc1CIEQ6AEwAXoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q=hin
du%20temple%20at%20Kotli%2C%20pakistan&f=false/) , Google Books
9. Are there any Hindus left in the Pakistan Administered Kashmir (Azad Kashmir)? (https://www.quora.c
om/Are-there-any-Hindus-left-in-the-Pakistan-Administered-Kashmir-Azad-Kashmir/) , Quora
11. DAWN (26 June 2019). "Hindu council delegation visits ancient temple site in AJK" (https://www.daw
n.com/news/1490436) .
12. Schaflechner, Jürgen (2018). Hinglaj Devi : identity, change, and solidification at a Hindu temple in
Pakistan. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190850555. OCLC 1008771979 (https://w
ww.worldcat.org/oclc/1008771979) .
13. "In a Muslim-majority country, a Hindu goddess lives on" (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/cultur
e/2019/01/muslim-majority-country-hindu-goddess-lives-pakistan-pictures/#/18_hindu_pilgrimage_m
mi8851_180405_2272.jpg) . 2019-01-10.
15. Mirri Fort and Hindu Temple in Quetta, Baluchistan, Pakistan (https://how2havefun.com/travel/quetta-
mirri-fort/) Have Fun
16. Zulfiqar Baig (21 December 2018). "Building temple: Hindu community hopes to secure PM Nawaz
Shareef" (https://tribune.com.pk/story/1871463/1-building-temple-hindu-community-hopes-secure-p
m-imrans-support/) . Express Tribune. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
17. Another old Hindu temple demolished in Haripur in Islamic Pakistan. (https://hinduexistence.org/201
7/01/23/another-hindu-temple-demolished-in-haripur-in-pakistan/) , Struggle for Hindu Existence
24. Ahmad, Imtiaz (2021-12-30). "Hindu temple in Pakistan vandalised, set on fire" (https://www.hindustan
times.com/world-news/hindu-temple-in-pakistan-vandalised-set-on-fire/story-06WMhxga1WvRXA4sh
TjtlI.html) . Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
26. Department of Archaeology and Museums (2004-01-30). "UNESCO world heritage Centre - Mansehra
Rock Edicts" (https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1881/) . Whc.unesco.org. Retrieved
2011-03-30.
27. When faith won over 'hate of partition': The story of two Shiva temples in Pakistan (https://zeenews.in
dia.com/news/india/when-faith-won-over-hate-of-partition-the-story-of-two-shiva-temples-in-pakistan_
1863245.html) Zee News India
28. Hindu Guides Infantry Temple: The bell that rings no more (https://tribune.com.pk/story/793700/hind
u-guides-infantry-temple-the-bell-that-rings-no-more/)
30. Night of Shiv: Shivratri festival begins at Dargah Pir Ratan Nath (https://tribune.com.pk/story/839909/
night-of-shiv-shivratri-festival-begins-at-dargah-pir-ratan-nath/) The Express Tribune
32. Goddess Kali Temple In Peshawar To Be Renovated For The First Time Since Partition (https://indiati
mes.com/news/india/goddess-kali-temple-in-peshawar-to-be-renovated-for-the-first-time-since-partiti
on-328347.html) India Times
34. Hindu temple sealed, two held for illegal repair work (https://dawn.com/news/1241787) Dawn
(newspaper)
35. [ https://dunyanews.tv/en/WeirdNews/576032-2000-year-old-Vishnu-Temple-water-tank-watchtowers-
discovered-Swat- ]
38. [ https://dailytimes.com.pk/402564/the-legend-of-atmaram-jis-samadhi/ ]
42. Krishna Temple — the only worship place for twin cities’ Hindus (https://dawn.com/news/1539267)
Dawn (newspaper)
43. Pakistan’s long forgotten Hindu temples and Gurdwaras By Shiraz Hassan (https://blogs.tribune.com.
pk/story/15785/pakistans-long-forgotten-hindu-temples-and-gurdwaras/) The Express Tribune
44. The temples of Rawalpindi: Old wisdom in a new world (https://dawn.com/news/1211298) Dawn
(newspaper)
47. Kalyan Das temple: An abandoned shelter for the blind (https://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/16522/kal
yan-das-temple-an-abandoned-shelter-for-the-blind/) The Express Tribune
49. Hindu Temples Of Lal Kurti Bazaar, Rawalpindi Pakistan (http://blogs.dunyanews.tv/21335/) Dunya
News
53. 106 - A Tour of Bhera City 1: Four Hindu Temples & A Gurdwara in Bhera. (http://pakgeotagging.blogsp
ot.com/2019/10/106-tour-of-bhera-city-1-four-hindu.html) Pakistan Geotagging
57. How Pakhtun Sikhs fleeing the Taliban made Nankana Sahib a cultural hub (https://www.dawn.com/n
ews/1381827) Dawn (newspaper), 9 Jan 2018.
59. Yagna at Mata Katyayani Temple in village Kakran, District Kulgam, Kashmir. (https://ibtl.in/photogalle
ry/photo/268/yagna-at-mata-katyayani-temple-in-village-kakran-district-kulgam-kashmir) IBTL
63. Once populated with temples, only traces of Hinduism remain in Laki (https://www.dawn.com/news/1
326114) , Dawn (newspaper), 17 April 2017.
68. 1500 Year Old Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir in Karachi, Pakistan (https://www.booksfact.com/arche
ology/1500-year-old-panchmukhi-hanuman-mandir-karachi-pakistan.html)
69. Panchmukhi Hanuman Temple In Karachi Is A Must Visit On A Devotees List. And It Has A Special
Connection With No. 11 (https://daily.bhaskar.com/news/JM-RELI-hanuman-temple-pakistan-563728
0-PHO.html) , Dainik Bhaskar.
70. Recycling history: And all of Hanuman’s men put this temple together again (https://tribune.com.pk/st
ory/338875/recycling-history-and-all-of-hanumans-men-put-this-temple-together-again/) , The
Express Tribune, 20 Feb 2012.
77. Gishkori, Zahid (25 March 2014). "95% of worship places put to commercial use: Survey" (https://tribu
ne.com.pk/story/686952/95-of-worship-places-put-to-commercial-use-survey/) . The Express
Tribune. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
79. "Absence of Lord Ram, Hanuman statues in Katas Raj temple irks Pakistan Supreme Court" (https://in
dianexpress.com/article/pakistan/absence-of-lord-ram-hanuman-statues-in-katas-raj-temple-irks-paki
stan-supreme-court-4979705) . Indian Express. 2017-12-12.
81. "1,000-Year-Old Hindu Temple in Pakistan's Sialkot Reopens After 72 Years" (https://www.ndtv.com/w
orld-news/1-000-year-old-hindu-temple-in-pakistans-sialkot-reopens-after-72-years-2077056) . Ndtv
News. 29 July 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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