Place · Tridevi goddess temple · India
Mahalaxmi Tridevi temple
Also known as Mahalaxmi, Mahalaxmi with Mahakali and Mahasaraswati, Mahalaxmi — Mumbai, Mumbai
The Mahalaxmi Tridevi temple at Mahalaxmi, Mumbai — the sea-facing Shakta temple on Malabar Hill holding the Tridevi (three goddesses: Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati and Mahakali) at a single sanctum. The temple's foundation is 1831, built by Dhakji Dadaji, a Bombay civil contractor who dreamed of recovering three deities from the Arabian Sea off the Hornby Vellard reclamation. The deities were recovered from the sea and installed at the current temple location. The temple's position on Breach Candy's sea-facing hill makes it the chief Shakta pilgrimage of Bombay. The annual September Navratri festival draws over 300,000 pilgrims. The temple is managed by the Mahalakshmi Temple Trust. The adjoining Haji Ali Dargah (1431 Sufi shrine on an island, reached by causeway) and the Siddhivinayak at Prabhadevi complete the Bombay Shakta-Shaiva-Vaishnava network.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 18.974, 72.808
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- Site withinMumbai
Mahalaxmi Tridevi temple lies within Mumbai — the two sites sit about 5 km apart, well inside the city's historical boundary and part of the same urban or peri-urban landscape. Mahalaxmi Tridevi temple is one of the specific sites that give Mumbai its layered character, and reads differently when seen as a stop within the larger city rather than as an isolated monument on an open map. The surrounding neighbourhoods, roads and other heritage ensembles belong to the same single urban fabric.
Sources
Wikipedia, “Mahalakshmi Temple, Mumbai”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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