In this 600-year-old Rajasthan temple, a Muslim family that came from Sindh has been serving a Hindu goddess for 14 generations: The story of Jodhpur’s Bagoria Mataji Mandir
Bagoria Mataji Mandir is located in Bagoria village, in the Bhopalgarh tehsil of Jodhpur. In Rajasthan’s Bhopalgarh, there is a temple where the person performing the rituals is not a Hindu priest. For generations, a Muslim family has been serving Bagoria Mata (a local deity), performing the temple’s rituals while continuing to follow Islam and…