Hanuman Temple, Karmanghat, Hyderabad,India

Hanuman Temple, Karmanghat

• Destination: Hyderabad

Karmanghat Hanuman Temple is located at Karmanghat in Hyderabad. It is one of the oldest temples of Hyderabad. It was constructed in the year 1143 AD (approximately). The temple is spread across 3 acres of land and is painted in the colour characteristic of Hanuman-vermillion. There’s a pond in the complex where devotees take a dip.
As per a legend, the Kakatiya king, Pratapudra II went for hunting into the forest and got lost; he heard the roar of a tiger. He looked a bit to hunt it, but could not find it. After some time, he heard the chant of ‘Sri Ram’. Thinking that who could be Ram devotee in this dense forest, he went into deeper and found an idol of Hanuman in a posture of meditation. He prostrated to the Lord and went back to his fort. The same night, Lord Rama appeared in his dream and said Pratapudra to construct a temple at the place he did found the idol. Then Pratarudra constructed a temple for Lord Hanuman who was in the posture of meditation. As the Lord Hanuman was in the posture of meditation and is called as ‘Dhyan Anjaneya Swami Temple’. Where ‘Dhyan’ means meditation and Anjaneya is another name for Hanuman. This temple is famous as Karmanghat because once the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was on the spree of destroying Hindu temples across the country; few of his men come to destroy this temple also. Because of some mystical force, the men could not enter the temple. This news was said to Aurangzeb; he also came to the temple for destroying Dhyan Anjaneya Swami Mandir. He was also occurred with the same situation as his men and a voice came from inside of the complex which said that ‘If you want to enter the temple, you must make your heart stronger (kar-man-ghat)”. The crowbar is Aurangzeb’s hand slipped and he made a hasty retreat. That’s how the temple is now known as Karmanghat Hanuman Temple.
The temple is also hosted by many other shrines dedicated to Lord Rama, Ma Durga, Ma Saraswati, Jagannatha, Nageshwara, Lord Shiva, Vigneshwara, Venugopala Swamy, and the Navagrahas etc. Ma Durga is much revered as she is considered to be the Shakti, the mother of the Universe. The Navagrahas- the nine planets, are considered the controllers of man’s destiny and are sincerely worshipped. Lord Shiva also draws many followers here. Continuous worship of 40 days cures illnesses, they say. It is also said that ladies who pray to Dhyan Anjaneya are blessed with healthy children.

Distance to Karamanghat Hanuman Temple:

16 Kilometres from Secunderabad Railway Station (60-70 min drive)
9 Kilometres from MGBS Bus Stop, Hyderabad ( 30-40 min drive)

Public Transport to Karmanghat Hanuman Temple:

Buses from Secunderabad – 90L2, 8A-158M-104R, 40-277, 40-104R, 104J, etc.
Buses from MGBS Bus Stop, Hyderabad – 72L-104A, 104A, 72V-104R, 1Y-277, 1Y-104R, 203A, 104R, 277

Temple Timings:

Daily 6:00 AM to 12:00PM and 4:00 to 8:00PM.
On Tuesdays and Saturdays – 5:30 AM to 1.00 PM and 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Nearby Tourist Attractions:

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ISKON Temple, Hyderabad ,India

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ISKON Temple

• Destination: Hyderabad

ISKON Temple is located at Nampally in Hyderabad. Lord Krishna is the main god of this temple and also other gods are hosted in the temple they are Sri Gaura-Nitai, Sri Jagannatha Baladeva-Subhadra, and Sri Radha Madana-Mohana. This temple is constructed by the ISKCON organization as one of the branch in Hyderabad.
Srila Prabhupada has eastablished the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). The other name of Srila Prabhupada is Abhay Caranarvinda Bhaktivedanta Swami was born in the year 1896 on September 1st in an orthodox Vaishnava family in Calcutta, India. Srila Prabhupada built 108 temples all over the world and spread the transidental knowledge of the Vedas in different languages. Srila Prabhupada wrote and published many books his famous books are “Bhagwat Gita As It Is” (World Record), “Srimad Bhagwatam” (Set of 18 Vol.), “Purna Purushottam SRI KRISHNA”, “Nector of Intructions”, “Nector of Devotion”, “Sri Ishopanishad” and many more. He started a magazine “Back To Godhead” in 1944 and now onwards it is spreading like anything. At present there are more than 1000 temples & 4000 centres all of over the world and it is feeding more than 2,00,000 students per day with Krishna prasad free of cost and Providing free education on “Bhagwat Gita & Other scriptures”. It is also spreading the Holy Names of Lord (Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare) by Mantra Meditation. Regularly conducting Mahanagar Sankirtan and Lord Jagannath’s Rath Yatra every year, Celebrating Sri Krishna Janmashtami, Gour Pournima, Narsimha Caturdashi, Nityanand Triyodashi, Ram Navami, Balram Jayanti and other festivals every year and the regularly happening Sunday Feast program.
In the temple there are different programmes conducted daily and special programmes are conducted on Sundays. . Bhakti Vrksha facilitates devotees to get personal attention and guidance on how to exercise bhakti yogas and sustain good association.
Devotees regularly visit this temple daily and on the day of Krishnashtami heavy crowd will be seen in the temple. The temple is under high security of police and metal detectors are also used at the gateways as part of security. This place has become the main temple of Hyderabad and is visited by many people and also considered as one of the tourist attractions of Hyderabad.

DAILY PROGRAMS

4:30 – 5:15 am : Mangala Arati
5:15 – 6:45 am : Japa Meditation
6:45 – 7:30 am : Nagar Sankirtan
7:30 – 7:45 am : Sringar Arati
7:45 – 8:15 am : Srila Prabhupad Guru puja
8:15 – 9:00 am : Srimad Bhagavatam Class
7:00 – 8:00 pm : Sandhya Arati
8:30 – 8:45 pm : Sayana Arati
SUNDAY PROGRAMS
10:30 – 12:30 pm : Sunday Children School
12:30 – 1:00 pm : Raj Bhoga Arati
1:00 – 2:30 pm : Lecture on Bhagavad Gita (Telugu/Hindi)
2:30 – 3:30 pm : Prasadam feast
5:30 – 7:00 pm : Youth Program
7:00 – 8:00 pm : Special Sandhya Arati
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Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad,India

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Ramakrishna Math

• Destination: Hyderabad

Ramakrishna Math located at Domalguda, behind Tank Bund in Hyderabad was constructed by one of the disciples of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa in the year 1974. Ramakrishna Math was established by Swami Vivekananda in the memory of his guru ‘Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa’ in the year 1898 in Beluru, Karnataka and the Ramakrishna Math in Hyderabad is a part and one of the branches of ‘Ramakrishna Mission’.
There are different departments in the Ramakrishna Math which include Ramakrishna Universal temple, VIOL (Vivekananda Institute of Languages), Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, Vivekananda Health Centre, Vivekananda Library, Gita Darshan (an audio-visual museum on the Gita), Art Gallery, Telugu Publication Department, Book Stall and Sharada Vanam.
All these departments actively participate for the society without expecting any profit from the people whom they serve. Regular activities of the math are teaching of foreign languages, personality development programs, feeding the poor, education for economically backward children, mobile hospital, health centre, library, relief and rehabilitation of the victims of natural calamities, etc. All these activities are either offered for free or for nominal fee.

Other Details:

Different departments have various timings and those will be updated in Official website of Ramakrishna math.
No Fee is Required.

Ashta Lakshmi Temple

• Destination: Hyderabad

Ashta Lakshmi Temple is located at Kothapet in Hyderabad. This temple is most winsome and unique pilgrimages of Hindu religion. The prime diety of the temple is Lakshmi Devi in 8 splendid forms known as Adilakshmi, AishwaryaLakshmi, SanatanLaksmi, DhanyaLakshmi, Gajalakshmi, Vijaylakshmi, Varalakshmi, Dhana Laksmi.
The temple was constructed in the year 1996 April by Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam. The architects who designed the temple are Padmashri S M Ganapati Sthapati, M Mathiyalagan Sthapathi. This temple has the style of south Indian architecture adopted from the temple of Chennai. There are about 134 vigrahams in the temple. Cement and soil are used for the construction of the temple. All the eight Lakshmis in the temple are decorated using different golden ornaments like Kasula Peru necklace and so, which looks awesome. The goddess of wealth ‘Devi Lakshmi’ is carved magnificently out of lifeless stone in order to shower the boon of prosperity, bliss, happiness and salvation upon their reverend devotees. When we look at temple in the nights from far evokes the image of a bright bride draping milky light all over it. It is feast for the eyes of every visitor.
Devotees visit this place regularly and on the special days Varalaxmi Puja and Diwali there will be heavy crowd of devotees to offer special prayers in Ashta Lakshmi Temple. This temple has become one of tourist places of Hyderabad.

Timing:

6.00am-12.00pm
5.00pm-9.00pm
6.00am-1.00pm(Friday)
5.00pm-10.00pm
6.00am-1.00pm(Sunday)
5.00 pm – 9.00 pm

Jagannath Temple

• Destination: Hyderabad

Jagannath Temple located near Banjara hills Road no.12 in Hyderabad. It was constructed by the Oriya community in the present and latest style for the god Jagannath, where Jagannath means “lord of Universe” known to be Hindu god Lord Krishna one of the incarnations of Lord Vishnu. People say that the temple looks same as the Jagannath Temple of Puri in Orissa.
Speaking about the architecture of the temple, “Shikhara” at the top of the temple is in the height of 70 feet. The whole temple is built with the sand stone that is specially bought from Orissa which made the temple red colour. About 600 tonnes of sand stones and 60 stone carvers used for the construction of the temple. Shrines of other gods such as Lakshmi, along with Shiva, Ganesh, Hanuman and Navagrahas are hosted in this temple. The temple is also a place where we see Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra the siblings of Lord Krishna. There are different arts on the walls of the temple which attracts the devotees as well as visitors and tourists to the temple and has become one of the tourist attractions of Hyderabad.

Timings and other details of Temple:

Morning: 6:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Evening: 5:00 p .m- 9:00 p.m.
No entry fee is required.

Trimulgherry Fort

• Destination: Hyderabad

Trimulgherry Fort located in Hyderabad in the area of Cantonment. The fort was built in the year of 1867, surrounded by a deep trench that is about five kilometres in length. During the period of British rule it consisted of barracks, arsenals, stables, mews, mess houses, and military offices. The fort is now turned into a Military Hospital serving many soldiers of the country.
Trimulgherry Fort is also one of the historical monuments of Hyderabad and looks so impressive which also attract many local and tourists of Hyderabad.

Yadagirigutta Temple

• Destination: Nalgonda

Location

Yadagirigutta Temple, also known as Sri Lakshmi narasimha Temple is the holy abode of Lord Narasimha, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. It is located on the hillock at Yadagirigutta village in the Nalgonda district of Telangana. It is situated at a distance of around 60 km from Hyderabad, the capital city of Telangana.

History of the Temple

In Treta yugam, there lived a sage named Yadarishi. He was the son of great sage Rishyasrunga and Santa Devi. It is said that he did penance inside a cave on this hill between Bhongir and Raigiri with the blessings of Lord Anjaneya to please Lord Narasimha. Seeing his great devotion, Lord Narasimha appeared in front of him in five different forms as Jwala, Ugra, Gandabherunda, Yogananda and Lakshminarasimha. They later turned themselves into finely sculpted forms and worshipped now as Pancha Narasimha Kshetram. The Puranas and traditional accounts related to this shrine are widely popular among the devotees. There is also a mention about the origin of the temple in Skanda Purana.
According to one more legend, it is said that Lord Vishnu, mesmerized by Yadarishi’s penance, sent Sri Anjaneya to take Rishi to the holy spot. It is at this spot; Lord Narasimha appeared in front of him in the form of Lakshmi narasimha. The spot can be still seen at the foot of Yadagiri hillock, which is just 500 metres from the temple. Sage Yadarishi worshipped Lord for many years on this hillock. After the sage attained moksha, number of tribals came here to worship the Lord. But not being very learned, these devotees began to indulge in improper worship. As a result, Sri Lakshmi narasimha moved into the hills. The tribal devotees searched their Lord for many years but couldn’t find him.
Many years later, Lord appeared in the dream of a devoted lady of the tribe and directed him to the cave and revealed himself to all showing his five majestic avatars. The puja vidhanam (Puja procedure) was set by Late Sri Vangeepuram Narasimha charyulu who served as Sthanacharya of this temple. Lord Narasimha is also called as “Vaidya Narasimha” among his devotees as he cures many chronic diseases and makes one immune to the influence of bad planets, witchcraft and black magic. A mandala (40 day) pradakshina is performed by many devotees to please the Lord to get cured of chronic diseases.

Construction of the Temple

As soon as you enter the Simhadwaram of the Temple, you will see Hanuman temple on the right side. There is a horizontal rock gap of about 10 inches width and 60 square feet in area exactly below the Hanuman image. This horizontal narrow cave is believed to be the spot where the Lord manifested himself as “Gandhabherunda”, one of the Swarupas of Lord Narasimha. A big hall is there towards the left side, where the devotees generally sit. The front pillar of the temple is a constructed sculpture whereas the rear pillars exhibits the actual shrine of the God, the ‘Garbha Gudi’, a natural cave of about 30 feet length and 12 feet width cut into a hill. At the top of the Sikharam of Sanctum Sanctorum of this temple, is the golden Sudarshana Chakra (about 3 ft x 3 ft) of Lord Vishnu. The weapon is a symbol by which this temple is identified from as far as 5 km. The cave is formed under a huge rock and passage is of just 5 feet in height. Thus, the very natural formation of the cave itself makes one bow involuntarily to the Lord. Special Pujas are performed at Peetha, which is on the left side of the passage. There are also the actual images of the Lord at the end of the cave. One can see the two rocks forming a vertical cup of about one foot between them. On one of the rock, we can see the image in the shape of a serpent head. This is said to be the one more Swarupa of Lord Narasimha known as “Jwala Narasimha”.
It is also said that the divine serpent still moves about the image. On the opposite rock, there is another image of a figure seated in intense meditation and this is believed to be the image of Yogananda Narasimha, the third Swarupa of Lord Narasimha.
The idols of Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Narasimha are made in silver and kept at the original ‘Vigraha’ for worship. The superstructure of the temple has its base on the huge rock which forms the cave.

Best Time to Visit

October to March
The annual Brahmothsavam is celebrated in the month of February or March every year. Thousands of pilgrims flock here during this 11 days long festival.

Temple Timings

The temple remains open for public from 4 AM to 9:30 PM every day.

Official Website

For more details about the temple, visit www.yadagiriguttasrilakshminarasimhaswamy.org .

Transportation

By Air

Hyderabad Airport is the nearest one, 83 km away from the temple and is well connected to major cities of India and abroad.

By Rail

The nearest railway station is at Bhongir, which is just 12 km away. It lies on the Kazipet-Secunderabad rail route.

By Road

There are regular buses from Hyderabad and Nalgonda to Yadagirigutta. There are wide stone steps to climb up and down the hill. There is also a good motorable road to the top of the hill from down below.