Durgiana Temple

Durgiana Temple, in Amritsar, is a significant Hindu temple built in a style closely resembling the Golden Temple, its silver-plated doors and the temple's position surrounded by a sacred water tank giving it a strikingly similar visual character to Sikhism's most famous shrine nearby. Dedicated to the goddess Durga, the temple offers visitors a chance to see Amritsar's significant Hindu devotional heritage alongside its more internationally famous Sikh sites.

The temple's architectural echo of the Golden Temple is intentional, reflecting a shared regional temple-building aesthetic, and its role as a significant Durga shrine gives Amritsar's broader religious landscape a fuller, more multi-faith dimension than its Sikh heritage alone might suggest to first-time visitors.

Built in the 1920s, Durgiana Temple's design was deliberately modelled on the Golden Temple's distinctive architecture, reflecting shared regional aesthetic traditions between Amritsar's Sikh and Hindu religious communities.

In central Amritsar, a short distance from the Golden Temple.