Radha Madan Mohan Temple

Getting there

• By air

  Agra Airport is 71.3 km away and New Delhi International Airport is 150 km away.

• By train

  Vrindavan has two stations: BDB/Vrindavan, on the Mathura-Vrindavan MG link, and VRBD/Vrindavan Road, on the Agra-Delhi chord.

• By road

  Vrindavan is 54 km from Agra by road and is linked to Delhi by National Highway 44 of the Golden Quadrilateral.

Book and check

Official pages only. We do not sell darshan passes or tours.

• Madan Mohan Mandir page on the Mathura district site (timings)mathura.nic.in

Why devotees come here

Radha Madan Mohan Temple stands in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, on the Yamuna bank. It is one of the oldest and most revered temples of the town, and one of the most popular Goswami shrines in the state.

Legend says that Advaita Acharya found the deity of Madan Mohan at the base of an old banyan tree in Vrindavan. Mira Bai is also believed to have worshipped this deity during her stay in the town.

According to historical sources, the temple was rebuilt in 1580 under the guidance of Sanatana Goswami, by Kapur Ram Das, a trader from Multan. When Aurangzeb attacked the temples of Vrindavan and Mathura in 1670, King Jai Singh secretly moved the original idol to Jaipur overnight. A zamindar, or landowner, named Nanda Kumar Basu, from Baharu, rebuilt the shrine in 1819 on a hilltop near the Yamuna.

The temple is built in the Nagara style, in an oval shape, of red sandstone. It stands 50 feet high on the Yamuna bank near Kaliya Ghat.

Tips for your visit

• Vrindavan sits on the west bank of the Yamuna River, and the river flows through the town itself.
• Vrindavan is considered a sacred place in the Vaishnav tradition of Hinduism, and Krishna is believed to have spent part of his childhood there.

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