Place · marble Vishnu temple · India
Birla Mandir, Hyderabad
Also known as Birla Mandir Hyderabad, Birla Temple
The Rajasthan-marble Vishnu temple on Naubath Pahad, a 85-metre hill in central Hyderabad, built by the Birla Foundation and completed in 1976. The temple is dedicated to Venkateshvara in a south Indian form, with inscriptions from the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads on the perimeter walls. The hilltop position gives it 360-degree views of the city, including the Hussain Sagar directly below. The Birla Mandir series — Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, New Delhi, Patna, Varanasi and others — are the Birla industrial dynasty's twentieth-century temple building programme and together constitute the most consequential private patron-built Hindu temple complex of the modern period.
- Date
- 1966–1976
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Patron dynasty
- Birla
- Tradition
- Standard reference; INTACH, ASI and municipal records; institutional histories.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 17.406, 78.469
Connections (1)
- Site withinHyderabad
Birla Mandir sits on Naubath Pahad hill in central Hyderabad, 85 metres above the Hussain Sagar lake. The 1976 Birla Foundation marble temple is one of the city's defining late-twentieth-century landmarks and part of the Birla industrial dynasty's subcontinental temple-building programme that also produced the Hyderabad temple's siblings at Jaipur, Kolkata, New Delhi, Patna and Varanasi.