Krishna Mandir, Lahore
Ravi Road, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
- Deities
- Krishna
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Coordinates
- 31.549722, 74.343611
- Darshan hours
- Open to the local Hindu community for worship; consult the Evacuee Trust Property Board or local sources for the current schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Major Krishna-associated festivals such as Janmashtami; cooler months (November-February) otherwise for visiting Lahore generally.
- How to reach
- On Ravi Road, opposite Timber Market, Lahore, Punjab; reachable by road within the city.
Location
Open in Google MapsKrishna Mandir, on Lahore’s Ravi Road opposite the city’s Timber Market, is one of only two Hindu temples still functioning for public worship in a city that, before the 1947 Partition, had a large Hindu and Sikh population. Managed by Pakistan’s Evacuee Trust Property Board, the temple suffered damage amid communal violence that followed the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid in India, and the Board later allocated funds for its renovation, with more than half the restoration work completed by mid-2005.
The temple briefly became the subject of a false alarm in 2006, when Pakistani media reported it had been demolished for commercial redevelopment; Pakistan’s Foreign Office publicly clarified within weeks that the report was incorrect, and that the property actually demolished lay several kilometers away, with Krishna Mandir itself intact and safe. No founding date for the temple was available in the sources consulted, but it continues today as an active place of Vaishnava worship for Lahore’s small remaining Hindu community.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's account of Krishna Mandir, Lahore during verification pass: confirms the temple is on Ravi Road, opposite Timber Market, Lahore, and is dedicated to Krishna; confirms it is one of only two functional Hindu temples in Lahore today (with Valmiki Mandir being the other), managed by the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB); confirms it suffered damage amid communal violence following the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition in India, after which the ETPB allocated funds (about Rs 1.2 million approved in January 2005) for renovation, with more than half the work completed by June 2005; confirms a May 2006 Pakistani media report of the temple's demolition for commercial development was clarified by Pakistan's Foreign Office on June 15, 2006 as 'incorrect and baseless,' noting the demolished property was actually located several kilometers from the actual temple site, which remained safe and standing.
For review
- No founding date or construction history for the temple was available in the sources consulted for this entry; its documented history in the sources reviewed begins with the 1992 post-Babri Masjid damage and subsequent renovation.