Places of Pilgrimage

Maharashtra has a long tradition of tolerance and interaction with different religious faiths. To the south lies the basin of the Godavari, and the territory from Nashik to Nanded which is regarded as sacred. A majority of saints and poets were from here. Trimbakeshwar, the place from where the Godavari originates has a sanctity of its own. Nanded is a pilgrim point for the Sikhs as it has a mausoleum of Guru Gobind Singh.

Besides Haji Ali, Haji Malang, Churches of Bassein and Mumbai, Syngogues of Pen and Alibag, Jain and Buddhist temples, Maharashtra alone has five of the twelve Jyotirlingas. Maharashtra embodied the cultural and religious influence of the northern Aryans and southern Dravidians. Thus both Vaishnavism and Shaivism flourished in the region. Shaivism extended its ambit to worship Ganesh, son of Lord Shiva. In fact the elephant headed god is one of the most popular deities worshipped by the people in Maharashtra.

The advent Varkari Sampradaya has inspired lakhs of people for centuries to realize god and taught them that no barriers of caste, creed and sex obstruct the path of the realization of God through devotion. Even today people visit these places with great faith and participate in Wari and Dindi.

Holy Places	Area / Town / City	Information
Vajreshwari Devi Temple	Bhiwandi	Click Here
Jivdani Temple	Virar	Click Here
Vithoba Temple	Pandharpur	Click Here
Khandoba Temple	Jejuri	Click Here
Mahalaxmi Temple	Kolhapur	Click Here
Sai Baba Temple	Shirdi	Click Here
Swami Samarth Math	Akkalkot	Click Here
Tulja Bhavani Temple	Solapur	Click Here
Mumba Devi Mandir	Bhuleshwar, Mumbai	Click Here
Mahalaxmi Temple	Mahalaxmi, Mumbai	Click Here
Mount Mary Church	Bandra, Mumbai	Click Here
Babulnath Temple	Charni Road, Mumbai	Click Here
Siddhivinayak Mandir	Dadar, Mumbai	Click Here
Temple of Goddess Renuka	Mahur, Nanded	Click Here
Gajanan Maharaj Mausoleum	Shegaon	Click Here
Shani Shingnapur	Aurangabad	Click Here
Global Vipassana Pagoda	Gorai, Mumbai	Click Here
Trimbakeshwar	Nashik	Click Here
Bhimashankar	Pune	Click Here
Ghrishneshwar	Aurangabad	Click Here
Parli Vaijnath	Beed	Click Here
Goddess Saptashrungi Temple	Nashik	Click Here
Aundha Nagnath	Aundha, Marathwada	Click Here
Narsobwadi (Shree Dattatreya Temple)	Kolhapur	Click Here
Ambajogai	Parbhani	Click Here
Saint Eknath Mausoleum	Paithan, Aurangabad	Click Here
Saint Dnyaneshwar Temple	Nevase, Ahmednagar	Click Here
Ambernath Temple	Ambernath	Click Here
Saint Dnyaneshwar Mausoleum	Alandi	Click Here
Vithoba Mandir, Amalner	Amalner	Click Here
Jyotiba Temple	Kolhapur	Click Here
Kalaram Temple	Nashik	Click Here
Shrine of Shree Dattatreya	Audumbar	Click Here
Tungareshwar	Vasai, Mumbai	Click Here
Haji Ali Dargah	Worli, Mumbai	Click Here
Balaji Temple	Nerul, Navi Mumbai	Click Here
Pataleshwar Cave Temple	Pune	Click Here
Prati Balaji Temple	Ketkawale, Pune	Click Here
Sri Sathya Sai Panduranga Kshetra	Hadshi	Click Here
Hazur Sahib	Nanded	Click Here
Dagdusheth Halwai Sarvajanik Ganpati	Pune	Click Here
Kailasa Temple	Ellora	Click Here
Dahanu Mahalaxmi Temple	Dahanu Road	Click Here
Swami Nityananda Math	Ganeshpuri, Bhiwandi	Click Here
Nageshwar Temple	Pune	Click Here
Ramtek	Nagpur	Click Here
Tekdi Ganesh	Nagpur	Click Here
Wai	Satara	Click Here