Shri Sankat Mochan Hanuman Mandir - श्री संकट मोचन हनुमान मंदिर

History of The Temple

Decades ago, a poor cowherd named Ganga Sahay Meena was going towards the cow fair to sell his cow. There his cow freed itself from the rope and ran away. Despite looking at many places, he could not find any trace of his cow. This made him extremely sad. He was wandering from forest to forest in search of his cow. Then his eyes fell on a place covered with leaves. He started cleaning that place, removed the leaves, and saw the idol of Hanuman ji covered with leaves. He prayed to Shri Hanuman ji that he had come here to get some money by selling his cow. So that he can take care of his family. But he is very upset due to the loss of the cow.

Saying this, as soon as he came down from that place, he found his cow standing below. He was very happy and on the day of Gyaras, he offered food to Hanuman ji and vowed that on the Gyaras of every month he would come here and offer food to Hanuman ji. In this sequence, other people also started joining it. In this way gradually the development of the temple started.

This cowherd is none other than the founder of the temple, Shri Ganga Sahay Ji Meena, who established the temple in 1965. After this, in 1980, an 11 member committee of the temple was formed. The work of registration of the temple was done in 1995-96. A pagoda was built in the temple only in 1995. After this, Ram Darbar was consecrated in 2002 and Ganesh ji temple was consecrated in 2009. After this, in 2012, Ganga Sahay ji went to Vaishno Devi temple, from there he brought three stones to build the temple of Vaishno Devi and established Sankat Mochan Maa Sherawali temple. In 2015, a huge 41 feet tall statue of Hanuman ji was installed on a corner of the hill in the temple. The work of making this huge statue was completed by the skilled artisans of Kerala in about 2 years, which was inaugurated by the Maharaja of Triveni Shri Narayan Das ji from his lotus feet on 18 July 2015. After this, the construction work of Chhoti Kashi temple was completed in 2018.