Surya Mandir, Surajpur Bargaon
Temple · Surya (the Sun God); a five-foot Parvati image is the best-known sculpture · Surajpur Bargaon, Nalanda, Bihar
It is one of Bihar's largest Chhath sites outside the river ghats; devotees come to offer arghya to the...
An old Sun shrine beside a large tank at Surajpur Baragaon, about 1 km from the Nalanda ruins and about 4 km from Nalanda railway station. The temple has gathered a collection of Hindu and Buddhist stone images from the surrounding mounds, the best known being a five-foot Parvati. It is counted among the twelve Suryadhams of India, and bathing in the adjoining Sun pond is locally believed to cure skin disease.
Plan your visit
- Area
- Nalanda
- Status
- Coming Soon
Festivals
- Chhath, observed twice a year in the Hindu months of Vaishakha (Chaiti Chhath, March–April) and Kartika (October–Novembe
Yatras that include Surya Mandir
- Sun Temple Yatra: Nalanda, where a Chhath fair fills a village nobody else visits.
Tirtham can arrange here
Guide, car and stay around Nalanda
Also around Nalanda
- Sattu sharbat in summer: What Bihar drinks against the heat: roasted gram, water, lemon and salt, sold from carts on every corner.
- Magahi paan: The betel leaf of old Magadh, soft enough to melt in the mouth, grown under thatch in Nawada, Gaya, Aurangabad and Nalanda.
- Rajgir Mahotsav: Bihar's festival of classical dance and music, with a food fair, held in Rajgir each year.
- Silao khaja: A many-layered fried sweet made in Silao, on the road between Rajgir and Nalanda, GI-registered in 2018.
- Bawan Buti weaving of Nalanda: Fifty-two motifs woven into one cloth, many of them Buddhist, by a few families of Basawan Bigha; GI-registered in June 2026.
Nearby places
- Nalanda Mahavihara: The world's oldest residential university
- Archaeological Museum, Nalanda: Pilgrims and students come to see the Buddha and Bodhisattva images recovered from the mahavihara...
- Xuanzang Memorial Hall: Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Indian Buddhists come to venerate the relics of the pilgrim-scholar who...
- Black Buddha: Buddhists come for the ancient image itself; local Hindus have worshipped the same figure as Bhairav...
- Shvetambara Jain temple, Nalanda: Nalanda is where Mahavira spent fourteen rains retreats and where Indrabhuti Gautama, his chief...
- Statue of Buddha, Jagdishpur: It is a living local shrine where an ancient Buddha image continues to receive Hindu worship, and a...
- Telhara monastery: It is the third great Magadhan mahavihara after Nalanda and Vikramshila, named in the Chinese pilgrims'...
- Aashapuri Maharani Temple, Ghosrawan: Local and regional devotees come to the goddess; the village is also a stop for the Pala-period...
Questions pilgrims ask
Why is Surya Mandir important?
An old Sun shrine beside a large tank at Surajpur Baragaon, about 1 km from the Nalanda ruins and about 4 km from Nalanda railway station. The temple has gathered a collection of Hindu and Buddhist stone images from the surrounding mounds, the best known being a five-foot Parvati. It is counted among the twelve Suryadhams of India, and bathing in the adjoining Sun pond is locally believed to cure skin disease.
Which festivals are celebrated at Surya Mandir?
Chhath, observed twice a year in the Hindu months of Vaishakha (Chaiti Chhath, March–April) and Kartika (October–Novembe.
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