List of Names & Information on Famous Hindu Temples in Bangalore City

Here you can find list of names and information (like history, architecture & facts) on ancient / old Hindu temples in Bangalore, India. These Famous temples in Bangalore city are most visited and most sought after best tourist places. You can also find photos of Bangalore temples / mandir.

This temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu, who is known to be the preserver of this world as per the Hindus beliefs. It is a male god with 10 incarnations in the mythic stories. Many devotees including the Vaishnaviks regularly visit this temple. This is a local temple for the Bangalore peoples and visit here on all of the Hindu festival occurring of a calendar year. Maha Vishnu is also a power full god and if worshiped with devotion will really solve the devotee's problems.

Gavipuram Caves are known from the 9th century AD. This was a place for meditation by many Sages's, including the famous scholar Maharshi Gowthama. In the 16th century, few additions were made by the Kempegowda, who is known to be the builder of Bagalaru as a City. From then this temple became a great pilgrim center and pulled many devotees to see its architectural marvel with sun lights entering this caves on special occasion on Sankranthi day.

Sri Big Bull Temple is a great worship place for the Hindus. It has a Ganesha temple on its adjacent side. Nandhi is believed to be an animal of prosperity. Touching this statue and get blessing from it is the main pooja ceremony done here. Pilgrims bring mainly the animal fodder as the offering material. This statue is mostly touched by the small children's to get a prosperous life. In the end of December month the Kadalekaayi Parishe festival is grandly celebrated here.

Ghati Subramanya Temple is the only place to see the Lord Subramaniya and Lord Narashima in one garbhagraha. The deities are facing east and west directions. Lord Narashima is facing west, either back side of Subramaniya Swamy and can be seen at the same time in a mirror focusing this idol for its devotees standing in the main grabhagraha areas. This temple is known for the powers of blessing the unmarried persons to get married soon and couples with infertility problems are blessed with children's.

The main deity of this temple is Goddess Droupathi Devi. It does have other deities of Vishnu and Kali Devis. Daily poojas is done here. It is the most visited temple of Banglorites on all major Hindu festival occasions. The Karaga is the main festival held in the full moon day of March month every year. This is an 11 day festival celebrated with great devotion and joy. Especially ladies used to keep vratha before coming to this temple festival.

Sri Radha Krishna Temple is an important place for the Sri Krishna devotees. It is also the common God for the followers of Hinduism. Apart from Lord Krishna, this temple has deities of Prahaladha Narashima, Sri Venkateshwara and Balarama. Many devotees come here for Vedic learning and spiritualism classes conducted here. There are daily poojas conducted here with praise of Krishna-leela and devotional song sung live from here with vocal and musical instruments.

Sri Shani Mahatma Temple is most feared and sacred temple of the Hindu religion. All shani dosha currently affected peoples come here and offer prayers and perform rituals as per his birth chart. The common pooja material is the Ellu seeds and the gingili oil. Some time peoples have to go around this temple premises for a 100 rounds, few have to stay here for 2-3 days and perform sacred rituals in the day and night times and few can join the mass rituals conducted daily for lesser affected peoples of shani dosha.

This is the only temple in south India to have a two different Maha Vishnu idols found in different moods. These idols are also seen with different procession on their hands. Many devotees come here to see these unique gods and blessed by them. The Vaishnavik sect peoples of the Hinduism visit here yearly once who are from other states of India. Locally it is visited by its local people's daily on the pooja timings.