About templetimings.org
templetimings.org publishes the practical information a person needs before visiting a Hindu temple: when it is open, what is enforced at the gate, who may enter, what prasad is offered and how to reach it. Every fact appears with the source it came from and the date it was last checked. Where a temple publishes nothing, the page says so rather than filling the gap with a number.
Last updated 1 September 2026A reference site, not a magazine
The distinction matters, because it decides what goes on a page and what stays off it.
What the site publishes
Opening and closing times for each part of a temple's day, the weekly closed day, the dress code that is enforced rather than suggested, who is permitted to enter and with what, the prasad on offer and where to get it, the route to the gate, and the festivals that replace the ordinary schedule.
Those are the things people search for in the days before they travel, and they are what a page is judged on here.
Who it is for
Anyone standing between a decision and a journey. That includes a pilgrim planning a visit that matters enormously to them, a traveller adding a temple to an itinerary, and somebody living abroad who has never been inside one and does not know what is expected.
All three need the same information. None of them need an essay about the temple's architecture before they can find its opening time.
What the site is not
It is not a booking service, a ticket seller or an agent. It is not a review site, and temples are not ranked or scored. It is not a religious authority: nothing here interprets ritual, prescribes practice or speaks for any tradition or community.
It is also not affiliated with any temple, which is stated on every page rather than buried in a footer.
How it is organised
Temples are grouped by country, because the rules that decide a visit follow the country more closely than the deity or the tradition does. Each temple has a hub page holding the whole picture, and separate pages beneath it for timings, dress code, entry rules, prasad, reaching the gate and festivals.
The split exists because people search for those separately, and nobody should have to read four answers to reach the one they came for.
From a temple's own notice board to a page here
Six steps, in order. Nothing skips a step to get published faster, and a page that cannot complete step two says so instead of inventing its way past it.
What each promise means in practice
Statements like these are easy to make and worth nothing without the specific behaviour behind them, so here is the behaviour.
| The standard | What it means on a page |
|---|---|
| SourcedEvery fact | The origin is named and linked wherever the temple publishes online, so you can read it yourself rather than take ours for it. |
| DatedEvery fact | The date of the last check sits beside the fact. An older date is shown honestly rather than hidden behind a refreshed page footer. |
| Never guessedNo exceptions | Where nothing verifiable exists, the page says the schedule is unconfirmed. It does not publish a plausible time to look complete. |
| IndependentOf every temple | No temple, trust or tourism body funds, reviews or approves anything here, and none can pay to change what a page says. |
| Nothing soldNow or later | No entry, ticket, queue skip or tour. No advertising and no affiliate links. Temple booking, where it exists, links to the temple's own channel. |
| CorrectableBy anyone | Reports from readers and from temples are acted on before new pages are written, and a correction changes the date shown on the fact. |
Who pays for this, and who does not
A reference site is only worth reading if you know what could bend it. Here is everything that could, and what is done about each.
No temple pays, and none reviews a page
No temple, trust, administration or tourism body funds this site, approves its content or sees a page before it is published. Nothing here is written to please a temple, and no temple can buy a better position, a longer entry or a softer description.
What a temple can do is correct something about itself, which is treated as the strongest input the site receives.
No advertising and no commission
There is no advertising network on this site, no sponsored placement, no affiliate link and no commission on any booking. Where a temple runs its own paid queue, the page links to the temple's own counter and takes nothing from it.
That removes the usual reason a page might quietly recommend one route over another.
Photographs are borrowed, and credited
Every photograph here is used under an open licence granted by its photographer, with the credit that licence requires. None of them belong to this site and none are licensed onward. Where a credit is wrong or a licence has been misread, it is corrected rather than defended.
Mistakes are corrected, not quietly buried
When a fact here turns out to be wrong, the page changes and the date on that fact changes with it. There is no interest in defending an old answer, because the only thing this site has to offer is that its answers can be trusted more than the copies elsewhere.
If you find something wrong, the contact page is the fastest route and no formality is expected.
Being careful is not the same as being certain. Temple schedules change without announcement, and no site can be ahead of a change nobody published. Use this site to plan, use the temple to confirm, and read the date on a fact before you build a journey around it. The terms set out the limits in full.
Questions about who we are
What this site is, how it is paid for, and what it will not do.
Who runs templetimings.org?
A small independent editorial project. There is no institution behind it, no temple sponsoring it and no tourism body directing it. What matters more than who writes a page is where each fact on it came from, which is why every fact carries its source and its date instead of a byline.
Is the site connected to any temple or trust?
No. It has no relationship with any temple, trust, administration or tourism board. It carries what temples publish, credits them and links back to them. Where a temple and this site disagree about the temple, the temple is right and the page gets corrected.
How is it funded if nothing is sold?
It is run at its own cost as an editorial project. There is no advertising, no affiliate arrangement, no sponsored placement and no commission on anything. Nobody pays to appear here and nobody can pay to change what a page says.
Why does every fact show a source and a date?
Because a timing with no date is not information, it is a rumour. Most temple pages online carry a schedule with no indication of where it came from or when anyone last checked. Showing both turns a claim into something a reader can weigh, and makes it obvious when a fact has gone stale.
What makes this different from a travel site or a maps listing?
A travel article is written once and rarely revisited, and a maps listing is edited by the public and rarely reviewed by the temple. Neither shows you where its hours came from. This site treats the schedule as the product rather than as a detail inside an article about the temple.
Why not let readers edit the pages directly?
Because the failure this site exists to avoid is exactly the one open editing produces: plausible information with no traceable source. Reader reports are the fastest input we have and every one is welcome, but each is checked against the temple before it changes a page.
How do you decide which temple to cover next?
By how many people are looking for a temple and how badly the pages currently answering them do it. A temple with heavy demand whose own website does not appear in the results is a higher priority than a quieter one that already publishes clearly. Reader requests move a temple up the list.
Can a temple ask for its page to be changed?
Yes, and that request outranks everything else. A temple's own statement about itself is by definition the best source that exists, and there is no interest here in publishing something a temple says is wrong. Write and it is corrected or removed.
Where do the photographs come from?
From openly licensed sources, used under the licence the photographer granted and credited as that licence requires. None of them are ours, and none of them are licensed onward to you. If a credit is wrong, tell us and it is fixed rather than argued about.
Is the site available in other languages?
It is written in English at present. Temple names carry their common local spellings so the pages are findable in the way people actually search for them, and other languages are a question of capacity rather than intent.
Can I quote or cite the site?
Yes, with attribution and a link. If you quote a schedule, carry its source and its date with it. That qualification is part of the fact, and a copy without it recreates exactly the problem the original was written to solve.
How can I help?
Send corrections, especially photographs of notice boards, and tell us which temples you could not find answers for. Those two things shape what gets written next more than anything else does. Nothing is asked for beyond that, and no money is accepted.
Something here wrong or missing?
Corrections and temple requests shape what gets written next. Both reach us the same way and neither needs any formality.