Goraul Sharif
Dargah · Goraul, Vaishali, Bihar
Muslims visit it as one of Bihar's leading Sufi shrines
An Islamic shrine and khanqah. The Sitamarhi district administration ranks it as the most significant Muslim religious place of the region "after Biharsharif and Phulwarisharif in Bihar," and lists it among the pilgrimage places reached from Sitamarhi.
Plan your visit
- Area
- Vaishali
- Status
- Coming Soon
Yatras that include Goraul Sharif
- Sufi Yatra: Vaishali district, a khanqah with a following across north Bihar.
Experiences here
- An urs, and the qawwali after it: The night a saint's death is kept as a wedding, with singing until dawn
Tirtham can arrange here
Guide, car and stay around Vaishali
Also around Vaishali
- Sattu sharbat in summer: What Bihar drinks against the heat: roasted gram, water, lemon and salt, sold from carts on every corner.
- Vaishali archaeological museum: What was dug out of the city where the Buddha preached and Mahavira was born.
- Vaishali Mahotsav: The district's festival for Mahavira's birth, held in the town where he was born.
- Shahi litchi season: For five weeks each summer Muzaffarpur sells the litchi India knows it by, GI-registered in 2018.
- Lac bangles of Muzaffarpur: The lac bangles the district itself names as the town's craft.
- The Kartik Purnima fair at Sonepur: Asia's largest livestock fair, at the meeting of the Ganga and the Gandak, from Kartik Purnima.
Nearby places
- Vaishali: An early republic, sacred to Buddhists and Jains
- Ashokan Pillar, Kolhua: Kolhua is where the Buddha stayed repeatedly and is held to be where he gave his last sermon and...
- Abhishek Pushkarni: Pilgrims visit it as a holy bathing tank of the Lichchhavis, tied both to the Buddha's stay at Kolhua...
- Bhagwan Mahavir Janma Bhoomi, Basokund: Jains come to the birthplace of Mahavira; it is one of the principal Jain tirthas of Bihar
- Bawan Pokhar Temple: It is the principal Hindu shrine within the Vaishali archaeological complex, visited alongside the...
- Chaumukhi Mahadev: Devotees come to worship the four-faced Shivling, an unusual form not found elsewhere in the district
- Ramchaura Mandir: Devotees come for darshan of the footprints of Rama at a stop on his journey to Janakpur
- Kaunhara Ghat: Pilgrims bathe and pray at the confluence, especially on full-moon days
Questions pilgrims ask
Why is Goraul Sharif important?
An Islamic shrine and khanqah. The Sitamarhi district administration ranks it as the most significant Muslim religious place of the region "after Biharsharif and Phulwarisharif in Bihar," and lists it among the pilgrimage places reached from Sitamarhi.
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