Goraknath Temple

Temple, Peshawar
Temple, Peshawar
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	Temple, Peshawar Location within Pakistan
Geography
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Country	Pakistan
State/province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
District	Peshwar
Locale	Gor Khatri
Culture
Primary deity	Guru Gorakhnath
Architecture
Architectural styles	Hindu temple
Number of temples	1
History and governance
Governing body	Pakistan Hindu Council
Website	http://www.pakistanhinducouncil.org/

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Goraknath Temple is a Hindu temple (also called a "mandir") located in the Gorkhatri area of Peshwar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The temple is dedicated to Guru Gorakhnath who founded the kanphata Jogi order at Tilla Jogian in the first century BC.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

History

Goraknath Temple is one of the few surviving Hindu temples in Peshawar, along with Kalibari Mandir and Dargah Pir Ratan Nath Jee, Jhanda Bazaar. A court ordered the Evacuee Trust Property Board to open this temple (or mandir) in Gorkhatri once a year on Diwali. The other two temples, Dargah Pir Ratan Nath Jee, Jhanda Bazaar and Kalibari Mandir, are ongoing functional temples in daily use.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]