Durgiana Temple (Durgiana Mandir)

Popularly called the Silver Temple for the finely worked silver plating on its doors, the Durgiana Temple stands in the middle of its own sacred tank, the Durgiana Sarovar, and is reached by a causeway in a manner that deliberately echoes the nearby Golden Temple. A shrine on the site is recorded in British-era gazetteers by the mid-18th century, but the structure seen today dates to a 1921 rebuilding led by Guru Harsai Mal Kapoor, whose descendants remain associated with its upkeep; an earlier claim of 16th-century origin appears in some accounts but is not reliably sourced, so it is not asserted here as fact.

The main sanctum is dedicated to the goddess Durga, while a separate shrine within the same complex honors Lakshmi and Narayana (Vishnu), giving the temple a combined Shakta-Vaishnava character rather than the single-deity focus typical of most regional temples. Its Navratri-season Langur Mela, in which devotees dress as monkey-devotees in honor of Hanuman, is among Punjab’s best-known Hindu festival gatherings, alongside large crowds for Diwali and Dussehra.