List of Hindu temples in Pakistan
Door of a Hindu Temple in Peshawar
This is a list of Hindu temples in Pakistan, sorted by administrative unit.
A survey carried out by All Pakistan Hindu Rights Movement Pakistan's revealed that out of 428 Hindu temples in Pakistan 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.[1] In 1990s nearly 1000 Hindu temples were targeted by the frenzied Islamists for vandalism destruction according to journalist Reema Abbasi.[2] Hindus often live in fear, have to hide their identity, adopt Muslim names and mannerisms in order to avoid persecution, while hundreds of temples have been vandalized or demolished.[2] Farahnaz Ispahani has blamed Pakistan of slow genocide.[3] Forcible conversion, Religious discrimination and violence against Hindus are regular occurrences in Pakistan.[4] Consequently, those persecuted Pakistani Hindus who can afford the journey, continue to migrate to India. The idols in the 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.[5]
Balochistan
- Hinglaj Mata cave temple at Hinglaj, Hingol National Park. The shrine of the Goddess Hinglaj is located in the desert of Balochistan, Pakistan, about 215 kilometers west of the city of Karachi. Notwithstanding its ancient Hindu and Muslim history, the establishment of an annual festival at Hinglaj took place only recently in the mid-1980s. after the Makran Coastal Highway connected the formerly distant shrine with urban Pakistan. Pakistan's minority Hindu community claim Hinglaj as their main religious center. [6]
- Kalat Kali Temple, Kalat, Baluchistan
Islamabad
- Saidpur Temple at Saidpur, Islamabad
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Abbottabad
- Araya Temple, Nawanshehr area, in ruins
- Shiva Temple and Dusehra House, partially in ruins
- Krishna Temple (old), destroyed
- Dera Ismail Khan
- Kali Mandir, illegally being used as a hotel
- Haripur
- Krishna Temple, destroyed
- Mardan
- Laxmi Narain Mandir
- Mansehra
- Shiva Temple (ancient) at Chitti Gatti/Gandhian location
- Shiva Temple (now a public library)
- 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.[7]
- Nowshera
- Shiv Mandir
- Peshawar
Punjab
- Chakwal
- Katasraj temple, Katas Village
- Malot temple
- Gujrat City
- Old Temple in Kakrali
- Khushab District
- Amb Shareef temple in Sakesar
- Tilla Jogian temple in the Salt Range
- Lahore
- Jain Mandar, Jain Mandar Chowk
- Krishna Temple, Ravi Road
- Lava temple, Lahore fort
- Rohtas Fort Hindu temple, Rohtas Fort[9]
- Valmiki Mandir, Lahore
- Mianwali District
- Hindu Temple, Mari Indus near Kalabagh[10]
- Multan
- Aditya Sun temple, Suraj Kund
- Sri Narasimha Temple, Prahladpuri
- Sargodha District
- Sialkot
Sindh
- Dadu District
- Ghotki District
- Jacobabad
- 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
- Daharan Tirth at Lakki hills[13]
- Gobindram Darbar at Manjhand
- Kathwari Harijan Manhar Mandir
- Karachi
- 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
- Hanuman Mandir at Doli Khata
- Hanuman Mandir at Frere Road
- Hinglaj Mata Mandir (also called Jagannath Akhra Mandir) at Bhimpura
- Malir Mandir at Shah Faisal Town
- 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.[14]
- Pamwal Das Shiv Mandir at Pawaldass compound at Kakri Ground in Baghdadi area of Lyari Town. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and The News International Muslim clerics have illegally turned this centuries-old historic temple into a Muslim pir and slaughterhouse for cows with the help of Baghdadi police after making series of attacks on Hindu families living in the area.[15][16][17]
- Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir 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.[18][19] 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.[20]
- Ramchandra Mandir at Saddar
- Ramswamy Mandir at Ramswamy
- Sheetala Mata Mandir at Bhimpura
- Shivaharkaray near Parkai railway station
- Shiv Mandir at Islamia Science College
- Shri Hanuman Mandir at Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre
- Shri Hanuman Mandir at Karachi Cantonment
- Shri Mari Amman Temple at JPMC F/Type
- Shri Mari Maata Mandir at Korangi Town
- Shri Laxmi Narayan Mandir at Native Jetty area
- Shri Punch Mukhi Hanuman Mandir at Garden East
- Shree Ram Dev Pir Mandir at Sadder town near Cantt Railway Station
- Shri Ratneshwar Mahadev Mandir at Clifton
- Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
- Shri Varun Dev Mandir at Manora beach[21]
- Kashmore District
- Baba Garib Das Darbar at Gospur, Kandhkot
- Shahdad Kot
- Baba Hiradaram Mandir
- Baba Khat wala shahib Mandir
- Guru Nanik Dass Mandir
- Shiv Mandir
- Shahdadpur
- Shri Shyam Dam Mandir, north of Baqar Khan Nizamani and west of Shahdadpur
- Sujawal District
- Shiv Mandir at Takanu in Jati Sujawal
- Sukkur
- Jhulay Lal Mandir at Bagarji, Sukkur
- Kalka Cave Temple, Arore near Rohri, Sindh[22] 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.[23]
- Khat Wari Darbar at Shikarpur
- Sadh Belo Island temple[24]
- Samadha Ashram, Shikarpur
- Shankaranand Bharti at Shikarpur
- Wasan Shah Darbar at Rohri
- Tando Allahyar
- Chelhar, Tharparkar District
- Shri Devi Mata Mander
- Shri Murli Mander
- Shri Ramapi Mander
- Shiv Mander Chelhar
- Mithi, Tharparkar District
- Lokesh Mander
- Shantoshi Maa Mander
- Shri Hanuman Mander
- Shri Krishna Mandar
- Shri Murlidhar Mandir
- Shiv Parvati Mander
- Shri Pir Pithoro Mander
- Shri Ramapir Mander
- Other places in Tharparkar District
- Churrio Jabal Durga Temple at Nangarparkar
- Guri Mandir at Guri
- Krishna Mandar Kantio Tharparkar
- Nagarparkar temples
- Thatta
- Baba Srichand Darbar
- 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
- Mata Singh Bhawani Mandir at Makli
- Nath Marhi Mandir
- Seetla Mata Mandir in a house at Sonara Bazar
- Shiv Mandir at Maheshwari Mohala
- Amarkot
- Kali Mata Temple[25]
- Krishna Mandir at old Amarkot
- Manhar Mandir Kathwari Mandir at Rancho Line
- Shiv Mandir at old Amarkot
See also
- Hinduism in Pakistan
- Lists of Hindu temples by country
- Minorities in Pakistan
- Pakistan Hindu Council
- Persecution of Hindus in Pakistan
- Religious discrimination in Pakistan
- Sectarian violence in Pakistan
References
- 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
- Citations
- ↑ Gishkori, Zahid (25 March 2014). "95% of worship places put to commercial use: Survey". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
- 1 2 The Hindus of Pakistan, Friday Times, Oct 2014.
- ↑ "Slow genocide of minorities in Pakistan: Farahnaz Ispahani Mint". Mint.
- ↑ Anwar, Syed. "State of minorities". Retrieved 18 August 2006.
- ↑ "Absence of Lord Ram, Hanuman statues in Katas Raj temple irks Pakistan Supreme Court". Indian Express.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Department of Archaeology and Museums (2004-01-30). "UNESCO world heritage Centre - Mansehra Rock Edicts". Whc.unesco.org. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
- ↑ Gor Khattree and Gorakhnath Temple, Peshawar, Rediff.com.
- ↑ Rohtas Fort Hindu temple in Pakistan, MSN.
- ↑ Mari Indus Hindu temple in Pakistan, MSN.
- ↑ How Pakhtun Sikhs fleeing the Taliban made Nankana Sahib a cultural hub, Dawn (newspaper), 9 Jan 2018.
- ↑ Sialkot Hindu temples in Pakistan, MSN.
- ↑ Once populated with temples, only traces of Hinduism remain in Laki, Dawn (newspaper)}, 17 April 2017.
- ↑ Naval Mandir, Rediff.com.
- ↑ Temple turns into slaughterhouse, The News International, 10 October 2006.
- ↑ Historic Shiv Mandir makes way for a Pir , The News International, 10 October 2006.
- ↑ Shiv temple turns into slaughterhouse in Pakistan.
- ↑ 1500 Year Old Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir in Karachi, Pakistan
- ↑ Panchmukhi Hanuman Temple In Karachi Is A Must Visit On A Devotees List. And It Has A Special Connection With No. 11, Dainik Bhaskar.
- ↑ Recycling history: And all of Hanuman’s men put this temple together again , The Express Tribune, 20 Feb 2012.
- ↑ Five most ancient Hindu temples of Pakistan
- ↑ Kalka Hindu temples in Pakistan, MSN.
- ↑ Kalika Cave Temple, Rediff.com.
- ↑ Sadhu Bela Hindu temples in Pakistan, MSN.
- ↑ Amarkot Hindu temples in Pakistan, MSN.
- ↑ Thar Hindu temples in Pakistan, MSN.
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