Place · relocated Shiva temple · India
Mangueshi Temple, Ponda
Also known as Shri Manguesh, Mangeshi
The principal Shiva (Mangeshi) temple of the Goud Saraswat Brahmins, rebuilt at its present site in Mardol, Ponda, around 1738 after the original on the Zuari river was destroyed in the Portuguese anti-Hindu edicts of 1540-67 and the deity was moved overnight across the river into Bijapur territory. The seven-storey white deepmala (lamp tower) outside the mandapa is the single most recognisable image of a Goan Hindu temple.
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- Religious institution & practice
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- 15.462, 74.001
Connections (3)
- Site adjacencyOld Goa
Mangueshi temple at Ponda, 20 km east of Old Goa, was rebuilt here in 1738 after the deity was moved from the Zuari-river village the Portuguese anti-Hindu edicts of 1540-67 destroyed.
- Site adjacencySafa Shahouri Masjid, Ponda
Safa Shahouri Masjid at Ponda stands in the same hinterland just outside the 16c Portuguese Old Conquests line into which the Goa Hindu temples (Mangueshi, Shantadurga, and other Goud Saraswat shrines) were also moved from the Zuari river after the 1564 anti-Hindu-and-mosque edicts. Both the 1560 Adil Shahi mosque and the 1738 rebuilt Mangueshi temple sit within three kilometres of each other in Ponda taluka.
- Site withinPonda
The Mangueshi Temple at Priol village in Ponda taluka, 22 km east of Panjim, is the largest and most frequented of the six Mahā-Śiva temples of Goa. The deity was moved here in 1560 from Kortalim (now Cortalim) on the Sal estuary to escape the Portuguese Inquisition and the demolition of pre-colonial temples on the Konkan coast; the current structure dates to 1738.
Sources
Standard reference (Archaeological Survey of India).
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