Bharat Mata Mandir vs Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple
Two temples in Varanasi. Bharat Mata Mandir has no online ticket listed; Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple has no online ticket listed. The table and the two notes below put them side by side; the full pages have what to see, the ticket and the timing for each.
There is nothing to buy for Bharat Mata Mandir. Entry is free, there is no ticket office and no timed slot, and no tour sold online is built around this temple alone. You simply walk in from the gate of the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith campus, leave your shoes outside the hall and look around at your own pace.
Most visitors arrive in one of three ways. Independent travellers take an auto-rickshaw or cycle-rickshaw from the ghats or the old city, a ride that usually takes twenty to thirty minutes depending on traffic, and ask the driver to wait while they spend half an hour inside.
No ticket for the Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple is sold online, and none is required. It is one of the busiest shrines in Varanasi, entry is free for everyone, and you simply join the flow of worshippers at the gate. Phones, cameras and bags are not allowed inside, and the temple runs its own lockers near the entrance where they can be left for a small charge. The traditional offering is a box of besan laddoos, sweet gram-flour balls bought from the stalls within the temple grounds, which are blessed and returned as prasad.
The temple stands in the south of the city, close to Banaras Hindu University and about 1.5 km from Assi Ghat, so most visitors come by auto-rickshaw or cycle-rickshaw from the ghats, or walk from the Assi area.
