Country Pakistan District Umerkot Division Architectural styles Hindu temple Important festival Maha Shivaratri Primary deity Shiva | State/province Sindh Important festivals Shiv Ratri Governing body Pakistan Hindu Council Number of temples 1 | |
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Similar Shri Varun Dev Mandir, Shri Laxmi Narayan Mandir, Multan Sun Temple, Prahladpuri Temple - Multan, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir - K | ||
Shiv Mandir is a Hindu temple situated in Umerkot, Near Rana Jahangeer Goth, in Sindh, Pakistan.
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Importance
This temple is divine and sacred among the Hindus residing in lower Sindh. It also provides shelter to many of the pilgrim in their miseries.
Deity
The temple has magnificent Shiv Lingam, which is indeed one of the best in the whole world. Legend says that the Lingam kept growing itself until locals marked the height to literally observe the growth.
Festival
Besides every year on Maha Shivaratri there is a huge three-day festival with several hundred thousand pilgrims from surrounding cities.On Maha Shivratri, Shiv Mela Also take place it comprises different entertaining deeds and it also has several programs for the awareness of people about the Maha Shivratri And the history of the Shiv Mandir. On Maha Shivratri many Pilgrim from lower and upper Sindh come there and most of them stay the three days long till the festival ends. It is also a place for tourists even it is one of the oldest Hindu's worship places.
History
It has been said that almost thousands of years ago a man used to nourish cows there, there was wide grown grass so that man used to come there and nourish the cows but one day he noticed that a cow used to go somewhere else and gives her milk to that Lingam which was not so much out of the land that time. The man keep observing many days that what is there and why she is giving her milk to that Lingam. Then people came there and checked then they considered that as a Shiv Lingam and built the Shiv Mandir.