Kasba Ganpati
Kasba Peth
The guardian deity of Pune, in Kasba Peth. The first of the five Manache Ganpati, honoured first in every festival.
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Temples, churches, gurudwaras, dargahs, Jain temples and ashrams in and around Pune.
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Pune is a city of temples, but also of old churches, a historic synagogue, Sufi shrines, gurudwaras and Jain temples. Many of the oldest temples are in the peths around Shaniwar Wada, while famous places of pilgrimage such as Alandi, Dehu and Jejuri are a short drive away.
Here are some of the best-known religious places in and around Pune. See also Ashtavinayak, Jyotirlinga and Ganesh Festival.
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Parvati Hill Temples
Parvati, near Swargate · Built Eighteenth century, Peshwa era
A group of Peshwa-era temples on a hill in the middle of Pune, reached by a long flight of stone steps. The best view of the city.
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Chaturshrungi Temple
Senapati Bapat Road
The temple of Goddess Chaturshrungi on a hillside on Senapati Bapat Road, with a large fair during Navratri.
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Pataleshwar Cave Temple
Jangli Maharaj Road, Shivajinagar · Built About the eighth century
A Shiva temple cut out of a single rock more than a thousand years ago, right on Jangli Maharaj Road.
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Alandi
Khed taluka
The town on the Indrayani where Sant Dnyaneshwar took samadhi. The Ashadhi wari palkhi to Pandharpur starts here.
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Dehu
Haveli taluka
The village of Sant Tukaram, on the Indrayani river, where the Tukaram palkhi starts every year.
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Jejuri Khandoba Temple
Jejuri, Purandar taluka
The hill temple of Khandoba, the family deity of many Maharashtrian families, famous for the yellow bhandara thrown by devotees.
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Ohel David Synagogue (Lal Deool)
Camp, near Sassoon Hospital · Built Completed in 1867
A red brick synagogue with a tall clock tower in the Camp area, built by the Sassoon family in the nineteenth century.
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St. Mary's Church, Camp
Pune Cantonment (Camp) · Built Consecrated in 1825
One of the oldest churches in the Deccan, built in the Pune Cantonment in the 1820s.
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Hazrat Babajan Dargah
Char Bawdi, Camp
The shrine of Hazrat Babajan, a woman Sufi saint who lived under a neem tree in Camp and is revered by people of all faiths.
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