Varanasi Pilgrimages

Varanasi is a beautiful city of India that is well worth making a pilgrimage to. There are many places you have to visit on a pilgrimage; it is up to you to decide where you intend to visit on your pilgrimage, and how many days you intend to stay in each place. The Kashi Vishwanath temple is dedicated to lord Shiva and is more popularly referred to as the Golden Temple. It was Maharaja Ranjit Singh who had donated a ton of gold to gold plate the 15.5 m high spire in the temple. As invaders had destroyed the original temple, Rani Ahilyabai of Indore had rebuilt it in 1776. However the Mughal emperor had destroyed the temple to replace it with the Gyanvapi mosque. You can still find the remnants of the temple on the western wall of the mosque when you go for a pilgrimage here. The Durga temple should be included in your Varanasi pilgrimage. This temple is built in Nagara style and has a ‘shikhara’ of several small spires found lying on top of each other. The Bharat Mata temple is dedicated to Mother India and is found in Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth. Babu Shiv Prasad Gupt had built it while Mahatma Gandhi had inaugurated it on 1936. You find a marble statue of Mother India here which is undivided with mountains, oceans and plains found in exact proportion. The next destination on your Varanasi pilgrimage is the Tulsi Manas temple that is dedicated to Lord Rama. The temple is constructed on the site where Goswami Tulsidas had written the epic ‘Ramacharitramanas’ by a philanthropist family in 1964. The Nepali temple is also known as the Kathwala temple, and is famous for its wonderful woodwork. The temple is an important part of your Varanasi pilgrimage that attracts tourists from all over the world as it is incomparable to any other temple found in India. The specialty of this temple is that termites don’t eat the wood used to build the temple. This wood and the workers for building the temple were all imported from Nepal.