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Jhandewalan Hanuman, Delhi
Also known as Delhi, Jhandewalan Hanuman
The 1994 Jhandewalan Hanuman temple complex at Karol Bagh in central Delhi — a modern Shaiva-Shakta complex built by Baba Nagpal (also founder of the Chhatarpur Mandir), featuring a 108-foot standing granite Hanuman image facing north — one of the tallest free-standing Hanuman statues in India, visible from the Delhi Metro's Pink Line Jhandewalan station. The complex also includes the Jhandewali Mata Shakti temple shrine (where the goddess Jhandewali is worshipped as a form of Durga). The temple's foundation is 1838 as a small shrine; the modern complex is 1994 with major 2007 expansions. The temple's distinctive feature is its visibility from the metro line and its blend of modern civic infrastructure with traditional Hindu iconography. The annual October Navratri festival each year draws over 300,000 pilgrims. Managed by the Shree Jhandewalan Mata Mandir Trust.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 28.644, 77.198
Connections (2)
- Delhi shrinesYogmaya, Delhi
Yogmaya at Mehrauli is a small temple believed locally to go back to the epic settlement at Indraprastha and one of very few Delhi temples to have survived the sultanate period; the colossal Hanuman at Jhandewalan is of the 1990s and is visible from the metro. Between them they cover the whole range of Delhi's Hindu shrines — an ancient survival in the old southern city, and a modern landmark built to be seen from a train.
- Site withinDelhi
Jhandewalan Hanuman, Delhi sits inside Delhi and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
Sources
Wikipedia, “Delhi”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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