Qualla: Prahladpuri Temple https://qualla.com/prahladpuri-temple en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:32 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/6/g/prahladpuri-temple-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Prahladpuri Temple https://qualla.com/prahladpuri-temple Prahladpuri Temple: Introduction https://qualla.com/prahladpuri-temple/ Photo credit Mubashirtaqi147, CC BY-SA 3.0. According to tradition, the festival of Holi began here. Not in India, but in Multan, in what is now Pakistan's Punjab province, at a temple built by the devotee Prahlada to honor Narasimha -- the avatar of Vishnu who burst from a pillar to destroy a tyrant king. For centuries the Prahladpuri Temple stood on its raised platform at the southern tip of the Fort of Multan, adjacent to the mausoleum of the Sufi saint Bahauddin Zakariya. Hindu shrine beside Muslim tomb, sharing the same hilltop. That proximity tells the story of this place better than any single event: coexistence tested, broken, and tentatively rebuilt across a thousand years.

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/6/g/prahladpuri-temple-wp/tt6g-prahladpuri-temple-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Prahladpuri Temple: A Pillar and a Promise https://qualla.com/prahladpuri-temple/ Photo credit Anon. working for Unicon Consulting Services (Pvt.) Ltd., CC BY-SA 4.0. Hindu tradition holds that Prahlada, son of the demon-king Hiranyakashipu, built the temple around the very pillar from which Narasimha appeared to disembowel his tyrannical father and reward Prahlada's unwavering devotion to Vishnu. The temple was constructed to enclose that pil...

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/6/g/prahladpuri-temple-wp/tt6g-prahladpuri-temple-a-pillar-and-a-promise.mp3 0:06 2 full Prahladpuri Temple: Shells, Spires, and Walls Between Neighbors https://qualla.com/prahladpuri-temple/ Photo credit Anon. working for Unicon Consulting Services (Pvt.) Ltd., CC BY-SA 4.0. The temple's modern history is a chronicle of damage and contested repair. In 1810, when the temple's height was raised, tensions with the neighboring Muslim community flared. Then came the Siege of Multan in 1848: a shell from the East India Company's artillery struck a gunpowde...

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/6/g/prahladpuri-temple-wp/tt6g-prahladpuri-temple-shells-spires-and-walls-between-neighbors.mp3 0:06 3 full Prahladpuri Temple: The Weight of Distance https://qualla.com/prahladpuri-temple/ Photo credit Anon. working for Unicon Consulting Services (Pvt.) Ltd., CC BY-SA 4.0. After the partition of British India in 1947, most of Multan's Hindus migrated to India. The few who remained continued to manage the temple, which persisted as a city landmark and maintained a dharamshala -- a rest house for pilgrims and travelers. Then, on December 6, 1992, Hin...

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/6/g/prahladpuri-temple-wp/tt6g-prahladpuri-temple-the-weight-of-distance.mp3 0:06 4 full Prahladpuri Temple: Rebuilding What Was Lost https://qualla.com/prahladpuri-temple/ Photo credit Anon. working for Unicon Consulting Services (Pvt.) Ltd., CC BY-SA 4.0. Efforts to restore the Prahladpuri Temple have been halting and politically fraught. In May 2015, the Evacuee Trust Property Board announced restoration plans and granted five million Pakistani rupees to the Punjab Archaeology Department. The local administration refused to issue...

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/6/g/prahladpuri-temple-wp/tt6g-prahladpuri-temple-rebuilding-what-was-lost.mp3 0:06 5 full Prahladpuri Temple: What the Hilltop Holds https://qualla.com/prahladpuri-temple/ Photo credit Anon. working for Unicon Consulting Services (Pvt.) Ltd., CC BY-SA 4.0. Before it was destroyed, the temple featured a main hall with circumambulatory passages lit by skylights. A replica of the deity stood under a baldachin in the central chamber. Today the site belongs to the Evacuee Trust Property Board, one of hundreds of abandoned Hindu and Sikh...

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