10 Temples In India That Offer Free Meals To Devotees

Zee Media Bureau
May 21, 2024

1. Golden Temple, Amritsar

The Golden Temple has the world's largest free kitchen or community kitchen known as 'langar'. It serves free food to 100,000 people every day. The prashad consists of roti, dal, sabji, and kadhah prasad.

2. Jagannath Temple, Odisha

The temple runs one of the largest kitchens in the world. The Anand Bazaar inside the temple complex serves free meals to thousands of pilgrims every day. It is said that the goddess Mahalaxmi herself cooks in the kitchen.

3. Vaishno Devi Temple, Jammu and Kashmir

The Vaishno Devi Shrine Board offers free Langar sewa to thousands of pilgrims every day. Hygenic and wholesome food is offered to pilgrims in the langars.

4. Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, Tirupati

The Tirumala Venkateswara Temple serves annadanam to pilgrims every day. Wholesome and delicious free meals are offered to the devotees in the TTDs Annaprasadam Complex.

5. Shirdi Sai Baba temple, Maharashtra

The food served at Prasadalaya is regarded as the Prasad of Sainath. The free meal consists of dal, chapati, rice, and vegetables. The Prasadalay has been termed the world's largest solar-powered free food kitchen.

6. Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara, Karnataka

Considering how old the temple is, every pilgrim who enters here gets free meals according to the 'annadana' tradition. Everyone regardless of caste, creed, culture, or status, receives the daily Annaprasadam served in this temple.

7. ISKCON Bangalore

ISKCON Bangalore serves free and sumptuous lunch prasadam called Nitya Annadana to temple visitors. The prasad consists of rice, sambar, sabji, sweet and buttermilk.

8. Krishna Temple, Udupi

Free and quality food is served to the devotees at the Krishna Temple. Daily annadanam is performed at the temple premises. The menu consists of rice, sambar, rasam, and payasam.

9. Padmanabhaswamy Temple, Kerala

Considered one of the sacred abodes of Lord Vishnu, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple offers free meals (annadanam) for the devotees.

10. Guruvayur Temple, Kerala

There are arrangements for free meals as Prasadam for thousands of pilgrims at the dining hall of the temple.

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