Babulnath

Babulnath is an ancient Shiva temple in Mumbai, India. Situated on a small hillock near Girgaum Chowpatty, it's miles one among oldest temples within the metropolis, Shiva in the form of the Lord of the Babul tree is the main deity on this temple. The trustworthy climb up to the temple and attain Darshan of the shivling and gain blessings of the Lord. It is also feasible to take an elevator as much as the temple. The temples is visited by using lakhs of devotees on annual Mahashivratri pageant. When the primary temple become constructed the land belonged to the Parsi network.

There were five Dakhma's existing within the vicinity. There changed into quite a few resistance for the Parsi network at that point for building of the temple. This resistance endured till the late 1800 when the difficulty turned into settled by means of the courts in favour of the temple. The Babulnath Temple changed into patronised whilst built for the first time by using Hindu merchant of that point and mainly the Gujarati network. A larger temple changed into constructed in 1890 through contributions from the Gujarati traders and the likes of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaikwad of Baroda country. The contemporary temple structure can be dated back to 1890.