Mumba Devi Temple
Bhuleshwar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Also known as: Maha Amba Devi Temple
- Deities
- Mumba Devi (Parvati)
- Traditions
- shakta
- Worship status
- active
- Address
- Sheikh Memon Street, Navi Wadi, Lohar Chawl, Bhuleshwar, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400002, India
- Coordinates
- 18.952, 72.8307
- Darshan hours
- Varies by temple and season; consult the temple's own trust/management for the current daily schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Navratri is the major annual observance; October to March is otherwise cooler for visiting.
- How to reach
- In the Bhuleshwar area of South Mumbai, reachable by local train (Charni Road or Crawford Market/Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus area) or road.
- Festivals
- Navratri (September/October)
Location
Open in Google MapsMumba Devi is the goddess from whom Mumbai (and its former English name, Bombay) is directly named — a local form of Parvati worshipped here as a black-stone image, and one of the city’s oldest continuously venerated deities. The temple’s own sourced history is not fully consistent: an infobox date gives 1635 as a completion year, while the accompanying narrative describes an earlier temple built by Koli fisherfolk near the site of the present Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, demolished around 1737, after which a new temple was raised at the current Bhuleshwar location, then known as Phansi Talao. Both figures are reported here as found, since no independent source was located this pass to reconcile them.
Today the temple remains an active, heavily visited civic landmark in South Mumbai’s Bhuleshwar market district, drawing hundreds of devotees daily along with dedicated Navratri crowds, its enduring role as the eponymous deity of India’s largest city giving it significance well beyond its modest physical scale.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's Mumba Devi Temple article: confirms the goddess Mumba (a local form of Parvati) as the deity from whom the city's name Mumbai/Bombay derives, an infobox-listed completion date of 1635, and a separate narrative that the original temple - sited near present-day Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and built by Koli fishermen - was demolished around 1737, after which a new temple was erected on the current Bhuleshwar site (then known as Phansi Talao). The article does not reconcile these two dates and cites no source for either.
For review
- The source consulted (Wikipedia) contains an internal, uncited date inconsistency: its infobox lists the temple as 'completed' in 1635, while its narrative text describes the original Koli-built temple near the present CST site being demolished around 1737 and a new temple erected afterward on the current Bhuleshwar (Phansi Talao) site. This entry reports both figures without adjudicating between them; no independent source was found this pass to resolve the discrepancy.