Vindhyachal Temple, or as popularly called Vindhyachal Dham, is located at a small township Vindhyachal in the District Mirzapur of the state Uttar Pradesh in the North India.

Maa Vindhyavasini Vindhyachal Mai is the presiding deity of Vindhyachal Dham, Mirzapur. Maa Vindhyavasini is a manifestation of Maa Durga and is Family Goddess (Kul Devi), Protecting Goddess (Rakshak Devi) as well as Regional Goddess (Kshetra Devi) of Eastern Uttar Pradesh as well as Bihar. Besides this, Crores of Hindus, settled around the world have faith in blessings of Maa Vindhyachal wali, and they visit Vindhyachal Mandir for the blessings of Maa Vindhyavasini.

Maa Vindhyavasini is Mahishasur Mardini (Slayer of demon Mahishasur), as described in Durga Saptashati. The divine city Vindhyachal is exactly on the banks of river Ganges, and strategically located exactly between two highly divine Hindu cities Prayag (Allahabad) and Kashi (Varanasi).

Interesting Facts about Vindhyachal

• Current Indian Standard Time Line, which decides time zone of whole India, passes through idol of Goddess ‘Vindhyavasini’.
• Lord Ram had visited this place and surrounding areas, along with wife Sita and brother Lakshman in his period of exile.
• In the ancient time, Vindhyachal area was inhabited by Lions, Elephants and other animals.
• In the middle ages, notorious and murderous Pindari thugs, Hindus as well as Muslims, used to worship Goddess ‘Vindhyavasini’ of Vindhyachal.
• Vindhyachal is the only place in the world, where all the three forms of Goddesses, Lakshmi, Kali and Saraswati have specific temples dedicated to them.
• Vindhyachal is the only place in the world, where ‘Devi’ (Goddess) is worshipped as per tenets of ‘Vaam maarg’ as well as ‘Dakshina Maarg’ of ‘Shakti’ cult of Hinduism.
• The very famous war between Goddess Durga and Demon King Mahishasur, took place at Vindhyachal.