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Early modern · Hindu · Pakistan
Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Karachi
Karachi, Sindh · 24.8544°, 67.0080°
Nara Narayana and SwaminarayanUndetermined—
Sacred since
1788 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
c. 1788 (216th anniversary marked in 2004)
Undetermined
History & significance
The only surviving Swaminarayan temple in Pakistan, spread over more than 32,000 square yards on M. A. Jinnah Road in central Karachi; Gujarati merchants built a Swaminarayan shrine here in the 1890s, and the walled complex also shelters a gurdwara used by the city's Sikhs.