Goa is regarded as to become a Christian state but you will be shocked at the quite a few temples scattered across Goa. These Goan temples have a history also attached to it. As history goes, following the Portugese set up power in Goa, many Goan temples were destroyed supplying approach to distinctive form of expression of western Portuguese Baroque. Nevertheless, the Saraswat Hindu Temples in Goa maintained to survive the Portugal regime. Uprooted from location to place, the presiding deities of these temples in Goa were preserved and worshipped, at instances, even inside the houses from the pujaris, until they were ultimately ensconced within their existing day abodes.
Some outdated temples of Goa which are mentioned for his or her organic attractiveness and straightforward architecture have certain fundamental features, as in the days of yore, of becoming surrounded by betel nut trees, coconut groves and lakes of pure water. If you enter any of those temples of Goa you are welcomed through the sentinels-the wonderful pillars of light.
Among the oldest Saraswat Temples in Goa will be the Mangeshi temple of Priol in Goa, the Shanta Durga Temple at Kavele in Goa, the Ganapati temple at Khandole in Goa, the Maha Laxmi temple at Bandewade in Goa along with the Sri Nagesh Maharudra Temple at Bandora in Goa. Of these, unlike all other ancient deities of Goa, the Sri Nagesh Maharudra did not move from Bandora (Bandiwade) even in the course of the period of time with the Portuguese acquisition.
