List of Hindu 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]

See also: List of Shiva Temples in Pakistan
Guru Balpuri Ashram in Thana Bulla Khan
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Pakistan administered Jammu And Kashmir

Bhimber District
  • Shiv Temple at Barnala[5]

Kotli District

Mirpur District

Muzaffarabad District

Neelum District

Poonch District
  • Mandhol Sun Temple at Mandhole

Balochistan
See also: Hinduism in Balochistan
Hawan at Hinglaj Mata temple

Las Bela District

Dera Bugti District

Harnai District
  • Agrasen Maharaj Temple , Harnai
  • Shiva Temple, Harnai

Kachhi District
  • Sant MadhooDas Temple at Bhag Tehsil.
  • Banke Bihari Mandir, Chalgari

Kalat District

Khuzdar District
  • Ramdev Ji Mandir , Gajozai
  • ISKCON centre, Khuzdar

Loralai District
  • Sanatan Dharm Mandir

Mastung District
  • Shiva Mandir at Mastung.It has a tree with three branches representing Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh.
  • Kalka Mata Mandir at Mastung

Nasirabad District
  • Ram Mandir, Nuttal
  • Bhagwan Vishnu Sthanam , Dera Murad Jamali

Quetta District

Sibi District
  • Sibi Mandir
  • Tili Van Mandir
  • Pooja Mata Mandir at Lehri

Zhob District
  • Hindu temple, Zhob
  • Arya Samaj Temple,Zhob

Islamabad

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
See also: Hinduism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Mansehra Shiva Temple

Abbottabad District

  • Araya Temple at Nawanshehr Area
  • Krishna Temple [18]
  • Tramsal Temple in Jarral

Dera Ismail Khan District

Haripur District

  • Bara Dari Temple at Sarai Saleh
  • Gurdwara & Ganesh Mandir at Haripur City
  • Krishna Temple at Main Bazar[22]
  • Maa Shairan Wali Temple at Main Bazar[23]
  • Shiv Mandir at Rehmania Bazar

Karak District

Kohat District

  • Valmiki Mandir

Malakand District

Mansehra District

Mardan District

  • Laxmi Narain Mandir
  • Guides Infantry Temple at Hoti[29]

Nowshera District

  • Shiv Mandir

Peshawar District

Swat District

Punjab
See also: Hinduism in Punjab, Pakistan
Baba Ram Thaman Shrine in Kasur district
Bavalakh Nath Temple in Jhang

Attock District

Bahawalpur District

  • Kala Dhari Mandir

Bahawalnagar District

Rahim Yar Khan District

[38]

Bhakkar District

  • Old Sheraan Wala Temple at Main Bazar
  • Shri Mahavir Ji Temple at Mankera

Chakwal District

Chiniot District

  • Bara Mandir was built by Maharaja Gulab Singh.[39]
  • Mandir at Moza Suliaman
  • kartari lal mandir(inside Lahori gate)

Dera Ghazi Khan District

  • shiv mandir

Faisalabad District

  • Hanuman Mandir at Ashrafabad
  • Sita-Ram Temple at Jhang Bazar Chowk

Gujranwala District

  • Sheetla Mata Mandir at Sohdra
  • Devi Wala Talaab at Mohalla Pondawala
  • Loria Temple at Clock Tower Road
  • Shiv Temple at Nuinke
  • AatmaRam Temple, Gujranwala : It is the Samadhi of Jain Archarya Vijayanandsuri at Bakhtay Wala [40]
  • Jain Temple at Rasool Nagar
  • Tomri Sahib Temple at Badoki Gusaian
  • Kamleshvar Mahadev Mandir
  • Babraya wala Mandir

Gujrat District

Hafizabad District

Jhang District

  • Bawalal nath mandir
  • Massan mandir

Jhelum District

Kasur District

Khanewal District

  • Hindu Temple at Mian Channun
  • Sita Kund Mandir at Kabirwala
  • Lachman Chotra at Kabirwala
  • Ram Chotra at Kabirwala

Khushab District

Lahore District

See also: List of temples in Lahore

Layyah District

Lodhran District

  • Hindu Temple at Danwaran

Mandi Bahauddin District

  • shiva temple

Mianwali District

Multan District

  • Aditya Sun Temple at Suraj Kund
  • Balmiki Temple (Valmiki) at Multan
  • Hindu Temple at Bukhari Colony
  • Mandir Jain Sweatamber at Inner City
  • Mandir Shah Majeed at Inner City
  • Sri Narasimha Temple at Prahladpuri
  • Old Shiva Temple, Near Multan

Muzaffargarh District

  • krishna temple

Nankana Sahib District

Narowal District

Okara District

Pakpattan District

Rajanpur district

  • krishna temple

Rawalpindi District

Sahiwal District

  • shiva mandir

Sargodha District

Sheikhupura District

  • Hindu temple at Pind Mirowal Moridke

Sialkot District

Toba Tek Singh District
  • Sri Sanatam Dharm Sabha Mandir

Vehari District
  • shiva mandir

Sindh
See also: Hinduism in Sindh province
Parbrahm Ashram

Temples in Sindh province:

Badin District

  • Shiv mandir

Dadu District

Ghotki District

Hyderabad District

  • ISKCON Hyderabad, Sindh
  • Shiv temple, Hyderabad
  • Durga Shiv Mandir at Circuit House
  • Maa Kali Mandir
  • SSD Dham Mandir at Shahi Bazar

Jacobabad District

  • Baba Kalyan Dass Mandir
  • Bhagwan Shiv Mandir at Ladies Market
  • Lal Sain Mandir at Bhahan Bazar
  • Nandro Mata Waro Mandir at Chenchri Ghitti
  • Sach Khand Dham
  • Shive shankar Mandir at Peti Bazar
  • Swami Kirshan Gir Darbar (Kundan Gir Marri)

Jamshoro District

Karachi District

  • Bhagnari Shiv Mandir at Kakri Ground or Lyari Town
  • Darya Lal Sankat Mochan Mandir (also called Jhoolay Lal Mandir) at Custom House
  • Devi Mandir at Bombay Bazar
  • Guru Nanak Gurudwara at Karachi City
  • Hanuman Mandir at Doli Khata
  • Hanuman Mandir at Frere Road
  • Hinglaj Mata Mandir (also called Jagannath Akhra Mandir) at Bhimpura
  • ISKCON Karachi
  • Malir Mandir at Shah Faisal Town
  • Manhar Mandir Kathwari Mandir at Rancho Line
  • Mari Mata Mandir Rattan Tallow Akbar Road at Saddar
  • Mata Mandir at Doli Khata
  • Narsingh Mahadev Mandir at Risala
  • 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.[66]
  • Pamwal Das Shiv Mandir at Lyari Town.[67][68][69]
  • 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.[70][71] 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.[72]
Panchmukhi Hanuman Temple in Karachi's Soldier Bazaar

Kashmore District

Khairpur District

  • Jhulay Lal Temple at Hindu Mohalla, Choondiko
  • ISKCON centre at Thari Mirwah

Larkana District

  • ISKCON Larkana
  • Chidakashi darbar Temple, Karma bagh
  • Krishna temple
  • Shivala temple

Matiari District

Mirpur Khas District

  • Shiv Temple at Laghari
  • Naon Nath Asthan Digri
  • Lal shiv mandir
  • Shiv Temple at Heerabad

Naushahro Feroze District

  • Darbar Sahib at Halani

Qambar Shahdadkot District

  • Baba Hiradaram Mandir
  • Baba Khat Wala Shahib Mandir
  • Guru Nanik Dass Mandir
  • Qambar Darbar at Qambar
  • Shiv Mandir

Sanghar District

Sujawal District

  • Shiv Mandir at Takanu in Jati Sujawal

Shikarpur District

  • Hanuman Mandir at Shikarpur
  • Khat Wari Darbar at Shikarpur
  • Samadha Ashram at Shikarpur
  • Shankaranand Bharti at Shikarpur
  • Bhaghwan Valmiki Mandir, Saddar, Shikarpur
  • Lal Mandir, Shikarpur

Sukkur District

  • ISKCON Sukkur
  • Baba Khushi Ram Mandir at Sangrar
  • Jhulay Lal Mandir at Bagarji, Sukkur
  • Kalka Cave Temple in Rohri, Sindh[74] 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.[75]
Kalka Cave Temple in Rohri

Tando Allahyar District

Tando Muhammad Khan District

  • Shiv mandir

Tharparkar District

Sant Nenuram Ashram

Thatta District

  • Baba Srichand Darbar
  • Guru Nanak Saheb at Mirpur Bathoro
  • Hanuman Mandir at Cinema road
  • Jhule Lal Mandir Behrani at Goth
  • Jhule Lal Mandir at Main Shahi Bazar
  • Jhule Lal Mandir in a house at Sonara Bazar
  • Makli Temple at Makli
  • Mata Singh Bhawani Mandir at Makli
  • Nath Marhi Mandir
  • Seetla Mata Mandir in a house at Sonara Bazar
  • Shiv Mandir at Maheshwari Mohala
  • Shree Mamai Dev Ashthan at Makli

Umerkot District

  • Aasmaniyan Ro Thaan at Umarkot
  • Dado Khetaram Mandir at Pithoro
  • Dargh Pir Pithoro at Pithoro
  • Kali Mata Temple[77]
  • Krishna Mandir at old Amarkot
  • Mandir at Cheelh
  • Ramdev Mandir at Goth Jafar Khan Dal
  • Umarkot Shiv Mandir at old Amarkot[78]
  • Shri Muralidhar Mandir at Umarkot
  • Shri Rattan Gir Goswami Mandir at Umarkot
  • 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.[79] 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[80] 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.[81] However some of the closed temples has been reopened following the Court rulings,[82] and government intervention.[83]

See also

References

Notelist

  1. Demolished in December 2020 again[24][25]
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
  • Reema Abbasi, 2014, Historic Temples in Pakistan: A Call to Conscience
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  42. Mari Indus Hindu temple in Pakistan MSN.
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  63. Raghunath Temple. Google Maps
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  65. Once populated with temples, only traces of Hinduism remain in Laki, Dawn (newspaper), 17 April 2017.
  66. Naval Mandir, Rediff.com.
  67. Temple turns into slaughterhouse, The News International, 10 October 2006.
  68. Historic Shiv Mandir makes way for a Pir , The News International, 10 October 2006.
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  70. 1500 Year Old Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir in Karachi, Pakistan
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  72. Recycling history: And all of Hanuman's men put this temple together again , The Express Tribune, 20 Feb 2012.
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  78. Thar Hindu temples in Pakistan, MSN.
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