Swaminarayan Akshardham, Delhi
Delhi, India
Entry to the Akshardham complex and the temple itself is free, and there is nothing to book in advance for a simple…
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Hindu Temples in India
India's Hindu temples are living places of worship first: you pass flower and coconut sellers, leave your shoes at the gate and join the queue for darshan, the sight of the deity in its sanctum.
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Galtaji (Monkey Temple)
Jaipur, India
Entry to Galtaji is free, though a small fee is usually asked for cameras and phones used for photography, and priests…
17 tickets & tours
Meenakshi Amman Temple
Madurai, India
General entry to the Meenakshi Amman Temple is free. Inside, Hindu worshippers can join the free queue for darshan at…
3 tickets & tours
Veerabhadra Temple, Lepakshi
Lepakshi, India
Lepakshi is a functioning Hindu temple as well as a protected monument, and there is no ticket to buy: visitors walk in…
3 tickets & tours
Eklingji Temple
Udaipur, India
Eklingji is a living royal shrine, not a monument, so there is no ticket to buy and no online booking.
2 tickets & tours
Jagannath Temple, Puri
Puri, India
There is no ticket for the Jagannath Temple. Entry is free for Hindus, who join the queue at the main gate after…
2 tickets & tours
Karni Mata Temple, Deshnoke
Bikaner, India
Karni Mata Temple does not sell entry tickets: anyone may walk in during opening hours, and the only charge is a small…
2 tickets & tours
Siddhivinayak Temple
Mumbai, India
Entry to Siddhivinayak is free, and the ordinary darshan queue, in which devotees file past the image of Ganesha, needs…
2 tickets & tours
Birla Mandir (Lakshmi Narayan Temple), Jaipur
Jaipur, India
Entry to Birla Mandir is free and there is no ticket to buy.
1 ticket or tour
Chandi Devi Temple, Haridwar
Haridwar, India
There is no admission charge for Chandi Devi Temple. The cost of a visit is the ropeway, called Udan Khatola, which…
1 ticket or tour
Jagdish Temple, Udaipur
Udaipur, India
Jagdish Temple is a working Hindu temple in the middle of old Udaipur and there is no ticket for it: you leave your…
1 ticket or tour
Kali Bari Temple, Shimla
Shimla, India
Kali Bari is a neighbourhood temple in the middle of Shimla and entry is free; there is no ticket and nothing to book.
1 ticket or tour
Kamakhya Temple, Guwahati
Guwahati, India
Entry to the Kamakhya complex is free, and anyone may walk around the courtyards and the smaller shrines.
1 ticket or tour
Ramappa Temple
Warangal, India
Ramappa Temple, a World Heritage Site since 2021, stands in the village of Palampet in eastern Telangana, about 65 km…
1 ticket or tour
Shrinathji Temple, Nathdwara
Nathdwara, India
Entry to the Shrinathji temple is free, and there is no ticket to buy online.
1 ticket or tour
Banke Bihari Temple
Vrindavan, India
Entry to the Banke Bihari Temple is free, and there is no ticket, timed slot or official queue pass to buy online;
No online ticket
Bhalka Tirth (Bhaleshwar Mahadev)
Veraval, India
Entry to Bhalka Tirth is free, with no ticket, timed slot or queue pass to buy, and no tour of this temple alone is…
No online ticket
Bharat Mata Mandir
Varanasi, India
There is nothing to buy for Bharat Mata Mandir. Entry is free, there is no ticket office and no timed slot, and no tour…
No online ticket
Birla Mandir, Hyderabad
Hyderabad, India
Birla Mandir is free to enter, and there is no ticket for the temple alone sold online.
No online ticket
Bull Temple (Dodda Basavana Gudi)
Bengaluru, India
No ticket is sold for the Bull Temple, and none is needed: entry is free, there is no separate queue for visitors and…
No online ticket
Chamundeshwari Temple, Chamundi Hills
Mysore, India
The Chamundeshwari Temple is an active Hindu shrine open to visitors of all faiths, and general darshan costs nothing.
No online ticket
Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati Temple
Pune, India
There is no ticket for Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati and nothing to book in advance.
No online ticket
Dakshineswar Kali Temple
Kolkata, India
Entry to Dakshineswar Kali Temple is free and there is no ticket to buy; no tour for the temple alone is sold online.
No online ticket
Durga Mandir (Durga Kund Temple)
Varanasi, India
No ticket for Durga Mandir is sold online, and entry is free.
No online ticket
The catalogue runs from Meenakshi Amman in Madurai, with its towering painted gopurams, to Swaminarayan Akshardham in Delhi, a vast modern mandir of pink sandstone and marble. Galtaji outside Jaipur is a chain of shrines and bathing tanks in a rocky gorge full of monkeys, and Karni Mata near Bikaner is famous for its sacred rats. Some temples, Jagannath in Puri among them, admit Hindus only, and many make you leave phones outside.