5 Richest Temples in India

Richest Temples in India

India has deep roots of spirituality and religion. Every year thousands of visitors frequent these religious places and temples owing to the religious importance and significance these temples carry. Many people regardless of their religion offer various things in cash and kind. It is not a bribe but a token of respect, faith and belief. There are some of the temples where these offerings amount to a huge collection of cash, GOLD, ornaments gems and various other things.

1. Padmanabhaswamy Temple

The riches of all the temples in India is the Padmanabhaswamy temple. The temple has six secret chambers. 4 out of these chambers houses the documents and other valuable, but chamber A and chamber B stores the valuables and cash donated and offered by devotees. Recently in June 2011, a committee of 7 member opened Chamber A and found treasures worth $20bn. The treasure belongs to the Travancore Royal Family. The committee found tones of gold coins & jewelry, sacks of DIAMONDS and other precious stones lying untouched from thousands of years. Chamber ‘B’ is however not opened yet. It is just one chamber that made Padmanabhaswamy temple the richest in the world.

Donations: Rs 650 crore (2010-11)

Reserve of five tones of GOLD

Fixed Deposits:- Rs 560 crore

Deity CLAD in 1000 kg

2. Saibaba Temple, Shirdi:

 Shrine to Saibaba, the Shirdi temple is the third richest in the nation.  It sees millions of devotees from different religions and castes every day.

Donations every year: Rs 350 crore (approx)

Ornaments and jewellery worth Rs 32 crore (approx)

INVESTMENTS: Rs 427 crore

3.Tirumala Tirupati Venkateswara Temple: 

The Tirupati temple at Andhra Pradesh is now the second richest temple in India. It gets visits from over  60,000 devotees every day. During festivals 1,00,000 to 5,00,000 visitors.  Actor Amitabh Bachchan, a devotee of Tirupati’s Venkateswara deity, has made several generous DONATIONS to the temple including a whopping Rs 51 lakh.

Trust Income up to Rs 650 crore in donations every year.

The gold on the deity itself is 1000 kg!

4. Siddhivinayak, Mumbai:

  This is one temple frequented by commoners and celebrities alike including the Bachchans, Shilpa Shetty and Deepika Padukone. The income of this temple including donations goes upto Rs 100-500 million Rupees. every year. The dome over Ganesha is coated in 3.7 kilos of gold that was donated by a Kolkata-based businessman.

Siddhi Vinayak Trust Income: Rs 48 crore (2010-11)

Fixed Deposits: Rs 125 crore

4. Harmandir Sahib or the Golden temple, Punjab: 

 The holiest shrine in the Sikh religion has its walls decorated with wooden panels and elaborates gold and silver work.  The canopy is made with gold and silver. The ‘Adi Granth' (Guru Granth Sahib) is studded with precious stones, diamonds and gems.

5.Vaishno Devi, Kashmir: 

This temple is one of the oldest in the country. It gets more than 4.5 million visitors every year and an income of Rs 500 crore annually.

Daily Visitors: - about 8 million pilgrims each year.

Daily Income of Shrine board: Rs 40 crore

Annual income Shrine board: Rs 500 crore