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Temples and places

Temples and places, one page each

Who built each one and when, the darshan hours the temple publishes itself, and the photos we are allowed to show, with their credits. Every page links out to the temple’s own page and says the date it was checked.

All the darshan timings in one table
The facade of Radha Rani Mandir in Barsana, with devotees below

Photo: Imakanksha, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Temple

Radha Rani Mandir, Barsana

The temple of Shri Ladlee Ji Maharaj on the Barsana hill. Its own site lists darshan from 5 to 1, then 5 to 9 in the evening.

Source: Mandir Shri Ladlee Ji Maharaj, official website, checked 2026-11-02

Kirti Mandir in Barsana, its carved sandstone spire and pavilions above a white marble courtyard

Photo: Avinashjha1806, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Temple

Kirti Mandir, Radha in her mother's lap

Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj founded this temple in Barsana, and it opened on Basant Panchami in February 2019. Radha Rani is here as a child, seated in the lap of Kirti Maiya, her mother, with Shri Sita Ram on one side and Shri Radha Krishna on the other. It stands 111 feet, mixes Nagara and Dravidian styles, and carries 22 gold leafed kalash. Darshan runs 8:30 to noon, then 4:30 to 8 in the evening.

Source: Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj, official website, checked 2026-11-02

Phool bangla floral decorations above a packed darshan hall at Banke Bihari Mandir

Photo: Aliva Sahoo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Temple

Banke Bihari, before you go

The mandir closes through the middle of the day and the hours move with the seasons. In summer, darshan runs 7:45 to noon, then 5:30 to 9:30 in the evening.

Source: Shri Banke Bihari Mandir, official website, checked 2026-11-02

Radha and Krishna deities dressed and garlanded for darshan

Temple

Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, live

Live darshan, festival updates, and the Square Feet seva, from the Hare Krishna Movement's temple rising in Vrindavan. The day runs from Mangal Arati at 4:30 in the morning to Shayana Darshan at 8:15 at night.

Source: Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, official temple schedule, checked 2026-11-02

The twisted, intertwined trees of Nidhivan

Photo: Kridha20, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Place

Nidhivan, the grove of saints

Small twisted trees that Vrindavan's saints hold to be devotees of Banke Bihari, in the forest where Swami Haridas meditated and sang.

Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-10-30

The carved sandstone facade of Radha Raman Temple in its Vrindavan lane

Photo: Kridha20, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Temple

Radha Raman, the lover of Radha

Built at the request of Gopala Bhatta Goswami around 1542, it houses the original shaligram deity of Krishna beside Radharani. The district counts it among the seven temples of Thakur of Vrindavan.

Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-10-30

Devotees under the tamal tree in the courtyard of Krishna Balarama Mandir

Photo: Goutam1962, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Temple

Krishna Balarama Mandir, Raman Reti

ISKCON's first temple, built in 1975 on the banks of the Yamuna where tradition says Krishna and Balarama herded their cows. Srila Prabhupada laid the foundation himself.

Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-10-30

The carved white marble entrance gate of Prem Mandir

Photo: Apurba Biswas, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Temple

Prem Mandir, marble for the divine couple

Established and inaugurated by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj in February 2012, with Shri Radha Krishna and Shri Sita Ram on its altars, maintained by Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat. Open every day, 8:30 in the morning to noon, then 4:30 to 8:30 in the evening.

Source: Prem Mandir, official website, checked 2026-11-02

Radha Kund with flower petals on the water and ghats around it

Photo: Krishna Kant Sharma, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Place

Govardhan, seven days on a little finger

The district tells it plainly: Krishna lifted the mountain for seven days and nights. The 21 kilometer parikrama passes Radha Kund and Kusum Sarovar, 25 kilometers from Mathura on the Deeg road.

Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-10-30

The garlanded deities of Radha Damodar on their altar, seen through the temple's carved stone columns

Photo: Kridha20, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Temple

Radha Damodar, at Seva Kunj

Jiva Goswami established this temple in 1542 at Seva Kunj, and it ranks among the seven original Goswami temples of Vrindavan. When Aurangzeb's forces reached the town in 1670, the deities were carried to Jaipur for safety and did not return until 1739.

Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-10-30

The tall carved gopuram tower of Rangji Mandir rising against the sky above its entrance gate

Photo: Aliva Sahoo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Temple

Rangji Mandir, a south Indian tower in Vrindavan

Two brothers from Mathura, Seth Sri Radhakrishnaji and Sri Govind Dasji, built this temple between 1845 and 1851 under the guidance of Sri Rangadeshik Swamiji, modelling it on the Ranganatha temple at Srirangam. Its seven-story western gopuram and Jaipur-carved stone gates mix south and north Indian temple architecture in a way found nowhere else in the town.

Source: Sri Rangji Temple, official website, checked 2026-10-30

The Basanti Kamra hall at Shah Ji Temple, its gilded altar and colored Belgian glass chandeliers decorated with flowers for Basant Panchami

Photo: 12 a 02, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Temple

Shah Ji Mandir, the hall of Belgian glass

Two brothers from Lucknow, Shah Kundan Lal and Shah Phundan Lal, began building this temple to Thakur Radha Raman in 1860, and the work took eight years. Its Basanti Kamra, also called Rituraj Bhawan, hangs fifteen Belgian glass chandeliers in white, crimson, yellow, orange red, and green beneath a painted dome.

Source: Shah Ji Temple, official website, checked 2026-10-30

Someone to ask

If you are planning the journey

Ram Kirtan Das arranges transport and yatras for Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir. He has offered to answer two kinds of question: how to reach Vrindavan from Delhi, and yatra and travel questions anywhere in India.

He replies when he can. Nothing is sold here and there is nothing to pay.

Ram Kirtan Das

Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir

rmkd@vcm.org.in