Hanuman Setu Temple
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Deities
- Hanuman
- Traditions
- other
- Worship status
- active
- Darshan hours
- Open long hours, with round-the-clock queues on Tuesdays during Bada Mangal; exact daily timings were not confirmed in the sources checked, so consult local sources before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Any Tuesday during the Hindu month of Jyeshtha (roughly May/June) for Bada Mangal, the temple's most important devotional season, though it is also the most crowded time to visit; October to March otherwise for cooler weather.
- How to reach
- Located opposite the University of Lucknow; well served by Lucknow's city bus network, auto-rickshaws, and the Lucknow Metro, with Lucknow's Charbagh railway station and Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport both within the city.
- Festivals
- Bada Mangal (Every Tuesday in Jyeshtha (May/June))
Location
Search for "Hanuman Setu Temple" on Google MapsThis temple's exact coordinates aren't confirmed yet, so the link above searches by name and city rather than pointing to a verified spot.
Hanuman Setu Temple, opposite the University of Lucknow, is among the most visited Hindu temples in the Uttar Pradesh capital, dedicated to Hanuman. While independently documented founding history for the temple itself is limited, its civic significance is well attested through its central role in Lucknow’s Bada Mangal tradition: on every Tuesday of the Hindu month of Jyeshtha (roughly May/June), devotees queue around the clock for darshan and prasad, and the city as a whole marks the season with free community meals, or bhandaras, now distributed from an estimated 3,000 food stalls citywide.
That scale of communal feasting, drawing volunteers and diners across Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and Christian communities alike, has made Bada Mangal one of Lucknow’s defining annual traditions, and Hanuman Setu Temple one of its principal focal points alongside the city’s other prominent Hanuman shrines — a reflection of the temple’s place in Lucknow’s civic and devotional life even where detailed architectural or founding history remains undocumented in accessible sources.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's Bada Mangal article: confirms Hanuman Setu Temple, opposite the University of Lucknow, as one of the city's prominent Hanuman temples where round-the-clock queues of devotees gather every Tuesday during Jyeshtha for darshan and prasad; confirms the associated Bada Mangal tradition of free community meals (bhandaras) now served from an estimated 3,000 food stalls citywide each Tuesday of the season, drawing participation across Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and Christian communities; the article gives no founding date or architectural history for the temple itself, and no dedicated Wikipedia article for Hanuman Setu Temple was found.
For review
- No dedicated primary source (standalone article, founding date, or architectural history) was found for this specific temple; its inclusion here rests on its well-documented, substantial role in Lucknow's citywide Bada Mangal festival tradition rather than on independently verified temple history. Founding date, exact coordinates, and precise riverside location (commonly associated with the Gomti river in popular description) could not be confirmed in the source checked and are omitted rather than assumed.