Yogmaya Mandir
Yogmaya Mandir Yogmaya Temple About Yogmaya Temple, also a Jogmaya temple, is a Hindu temple shakti peetha dedicated to Goddess Yogmaya, the sister of Krishna, and situated in Mehrauli, New Delhi, close to the Qutb complex. According to local priests, this is one of those 27 temples destroyed by Mahmud Ghazni and later by Mamluks and it is the only surviving temple belonging to a pre-sultanate period which is still in use. Hindu king Samrat Vikramaditya Hemu reconstructed the temple and brought back the temple from ruins. During Aurangzeb's reign, a rectangular hall was added to the temple which is a witness of a failed attempt by Mughals to convert this ancient temple into a mosque which was later turned into a storeroom for Devi's vastra. Though its original (300-200 BC) architecture could never be restored after its deconstruction by Muslims,...
