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Nagarparkar, Tharparkar district, Sindh · 24.6381°, 70.6178°
A Shvetambara Jain temple of marble in the Nagarparkar area of Sindh, dedicated to Parshvanatha and holding twenty-four small cells for the twenty-four Tirthankaras. Its design is compared to the Jain temples of Mount Abu, and it survives as one of the most important Jain monuments left in Pakistan.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
Local tradition credits the temple to a Jain devotee named Gorichom, from whom its name is said to derive.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-28 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Undetermined
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