Suryanarayana Temple
Thus, on the 4th July of 1906 with the divine presence of the Sadguru Padmanabh Swami Maharaj the Temple project dedicated to the Sun Lord was initiated first by invoking all celestial Devata’s & Devi’s. The invocation and initiation mantras were conducted by the renowned Shri Govind Raghunath Mahajan Shastri who also did the pran-pathistha for the Shri Ganapati, Shri Agni-Narayan, Shri Hanuman, Shri Shiva-Parvati, Savitri Mata Paduka’s in the temple. During the same auspicious period, temples were also set up at Ghatim and Pargaon following the establishment of the Kelwe-Mahim Temple.
On the morning of 6th July 1906, the auspicious day of Vyas puja, Shri Gautam Swami alongwith his wife Saubhagyavati Mukta Pandurang Lokhande as the Yajmaan initiated the pran-prathistha pooja guided by the mantra & tantra of the holy Sadguru. This initiation started at nine in the morning and continued till 12 noon when the second Yajmaan couple i.e. Krishnabharti Swami & his wife Saubhagyavati Bhiwara Lakshman Lokhande, led the first rituals of Shri Suryanarayana. The holy temple was formally inaugurated after the pooja at the hands of renowned Shri Vishwaranya Swami Andherikar alias Shri Kashinath Chimanaji Sakhle on the noon of 6 July 1906.
