The Moti Doongri Ganesh Temple is Jaipur's most popular Hindu temple — a white marble shrine built in 1761 atop a small hill (moti doongri means 'pearl hill') beside the Moti Doongri Palace in the modern city. The temple houses a 400-year-old Ganesh idol brought from a village near Jodhpur by Maharaja Madho Singh I, and it draws thousands of devotees daily, especially on Wednesdays (Ganesh's day) when the queue can stretch for several hundred metres down the hill.
The complex is small and the rituals are intimate — a quick darshan takes 10-15 minutes including climb and descent — and the elevated position provides good views back over the modern city. The adjoining Moti Doongri Palace (a 19th-century hilltop palace in a Scottish castle style) is not open to the public but is visible from the temple.
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The temple was built in 1761
The 400-year-old Ganesh idol was brought from a village near Jodhpur
Wednesdays are the busiest day at the temple
Moti Doongri means 'pearl hill' in Hindi
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Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, Tilak Nagar, Jaipur, 302004, India
