Radha Madan Mohan Temple, Vrindavan

The Radha Madan Mohan Temple stands on raised ground near Kaliya Ghat by the Yamuna in Vrindavan and is one of the oldest and most revered temples of the town. Its deity is Madan Mohan, a form of Krishna, with Radha and the gopi Lalita on either side. Folklore traces the shrine to Krishna's great-grandson Vajranabh; the image was later found at the foot of a banyan tree by Advaita Acharya and passed to Sanatana Goswami, and it is said to be the deity Mira Bai worshipped in Vrindavan. In 1580 a Multan trader, Kapur Ram Das, rebuilt the temple under Sanatana Goswami's guidance.

Before Aurangzeb's attack on the temples of Vrindavan and Mathura in 1670, the original image was secretly carried to Jaipur and later to Karauli in Rajasthan, where it remains; the Vrindavan temple keeps a replica installed in 1748. The oval temple is built of red sandstone in the Nagara style and shows influences from Mughal and Kalinga architecture.