Heritage record
Urdu Bazar Temple
PunjabTempleProtected
This temple stands on a cross road, locally translated as a chowk, inside the bazaar very near to Ambardaran temple. No staircase or door is present to go inside. Base or ground floor has been occupied by an open garment shop. State of mandir is dilapidated, almost destroyed. The ground floor once used to be the garbhagriha, now architectural elements are not present only skeleton of bricks is present. By the looking at the shikara, the temple might have been dedicated to Ganesh. Style of architecture is similar to Ambardaran temple. Around 7.5-9 m tall, along with the garbhagriha from the floor.
- Record ID
- 9311
- Province / territory
- Punjab
- District
- Rawalpindi
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Temple
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 33.61637, 73.05734 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Khan, Ayesha Mumtaz. (2013). Art and Architecture of Hindu Temples in Rawalpindi: A Case Study of Kalyan Das Temple. Unpublished M.Phil. thesis: TIAC, QAU, Islamabad.
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