Sri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir Temple

Sri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir Temple

Sri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir Temple

Old Delhi was founded by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan (1628–1658) who built what is commonly known as the old city or walled city, surrounded by a wall, with the main street Chandni Chowk in front of the Red Fort, the imperial residence.

Shah Jahan invited several Agrawal Jain merchants[4] to come and settle in the city and granted them some land south of the Chandani Chauk around Dariba Gali. He also permitted them to build a temporary structure to house a Jain temple. The Agrawal Jain community acquired three marble idols installed by Jivaraj Papriwal under the supervision of Bhattaraka Jinachandra in Samvat 1548 (1491 AD) for the temple. The main icon is that of Tirthankara Parshva.

It is said that the deities in temple were originally kept in a tent belonging to an Agrawal Jain officer