Place · modern Shakti temple complex · India
Shri Aadya Katyayani Shakti Peeth / Chhatarpur Temple
Also known as Adhya Mahishasuramardini, Adhya Mahishasuramardini (Chhatarpur), Chhatarpur Mandir, Delhi
The Chhatarpur Shri Adya Katyayani Shakti Peeth temple complex at Chhatarpur in South Delhi — one of the largest Hindu temple complexes in India by land area (approximately 70 acres), built by Baba Nagpal, a Shakta saint originally from Jammu, between 1974 and 2008. The complex contains 20+ smaller temples including shrines to Katyayani, Mahishasuramardini, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Ganesha and Shiva, with the main Adya Mahishasuramardini goddess shrine in white marble. The complex's architecture mixes South Indian Dravida, North Indian Nagara and Kerala Shilpa idioms. The temple's prasad kitchen serves 10,000+ free meals daily. The 2008 Baba Nagpal samadhi (he died 25 February 2008) is also within the complex. The annual October Navratri festival each year draws over 100,000 pilgrims. The temple is managed by the Shri Adya Katyayani Shakti Peeth Mandir Trust.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 28.504, 77.184
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- Site withinDelhi
Adhya Mahishasuramardini, 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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