Maruti Mandir Powai

Dasharath Singh Solanki 71 months ago

This temple was demolished by BMC and MMRDA on 14th Dec 2017 @ 3:00am early in the morning. The idol of Shri Maruti has been shifted to nearby Ram Mandir which was earlier developed by a builder in Maruti Darshan Society. There were few trees of Peepal and Bargad I am not sure what has happened to those innocents life..

shashank salve 59 months ago

Narayan Paranjpe was a government employee working under the British. Paranjpe used to own the land from the Bhavani Petrol Pump to the Laxmi Restaurant. This particular stretch of land was known Paranjpe Wadi. In the centre of Paranjpe wadi stood a cow shed. This was the place a few cows were tied and milk was extracted for domestic consumption.

Adi Shankaracharya Marg now a 6 lane highway was a narrow road. At a time only one car would pass one way. If there was a car coming from the opposite side. The car would have to go off the road to let the other car pass.

Narayan Paranjpe was spiritual person and would go to the Mahakali Caves to meditate. In the year 1925, Narayan Paranjpe had a dream. A God appeared in his dream and asked to be rescued from the the lake. (Yeah, sometimes Gods also needs humans to help them. )

By sheer coincidence the cleaning of PowaiLake was in progress. Paranjpe employed more people to dive down to see if they could find any murti (idol). After lot of searching they indeed found a murti of hanuman. The murti idol which is about 3 feet in height was heavy and had to be transported by bullock carts.

Chandresh shahAjbani 59 months ago

It's called mantay Hanuman temple . you make a wish and it comes true you have to go 7 Saturday or 9 or 21 that depends on you but huge nomber of people come to worship that temple