Ranbireshwar Temple, Jammu ll Oldest historical temple ll रणविरेश्वर मंदिर जम्मू

Jammu is known as the city of Temple and Shri Ranbireshwar temple is the oldest temple in Jammu city. In the city centre and just opposite to civil secretariat there is a triple storeyed huge temple which is visited by a large number of devotees daily while thousands of people see it daily while passing through the main Shalamar Road in Jammu city. The ground floor and first floor have the rooms. While the temple stands on the top floor. The temple built in about 1880 AD by Maharaja Ranbir Singh ( 1857AD -1885AD) of Jammu and Kashmir was just a part his attempt to convert Jammu city into the City of Temples on pattern of Kashi (Banaras) Not only this , Shaligrams in two adjoining halls of the temple were also specially brought from the bed of Narmada river. Shaligrams have special significance for Lord Shiva worshippers. In addition to all this, there are small temples having idols of Mahakali, Lord Panchmukhi Hanuman, Shani Devta, Ganesha and Kartik , the elder son of Lord Shiva just outside the main temple. On one side of Nandi, is a huge metallic bell which weighs over a quintal ( over 100 kg). The place where this temple has been built was a small hill and a saint used to perform meditation at this place whose Samadhi has been built below the temple in the large open land. The Shivlingam was placed at the height which was the top of that hillock on the advise of that saint. The temple has a large space for worshippers who can sit and do meditation inside the temple which is rare in most of the temples. In the memory of Maharani Yasho Rajya Lakshmi 24th May 2012, Late. Smt. Sheila Dikshit Ex – Chief Minister of Delhi inaugurated Yasho – Karn Park at the backside of historic Shri. outer court before entering the temple and replacing the small Nandi with a beautiful large metal Nandi acquired from Mysore. Here again the Utsav Murti of Lord Shiva has been provided for the annual Maha Shivratri Maharaja Ranbir Singh Ji, like his father Maharaja Gulab Singh ji, was equally brave, kind, benevolent , farsighted and able administrator , he was also a great politician and a staunch Hindu but his cherished Dharma was humanism and secularism. He constructed a number of temples in the periphery of Jammu city and at different parts of Jammu and Kashmir, which are worth seeing . Shri Ranbireshwar temple is the pride temple of Jammu city and because of this majestic and magnificent temple Jammu has also acquired the name as “The City of Temples”. Specially in the month of “Sawan” and Mondays of the Sawan’s month thousands of devotees visit Shri Ranbireshwar Temple, where they pay obesisence to Lord Shiva, Mahadev and seek their blessing for them and their near and dear ones. #ranbireshwar #ranvireshwar #Jammu #temple #mandir #shiv