📍 Pilgrimage🛕 Religious📍 Village

Madhuban Shikharji Base

Giridih, Jharkhand, India

4.5 (0)

Overview

The temple town at the base of Parasnath hill, lined with Jain temples, dharamshalas and museums, where the Shikharji yatra begins.

Why visit: The gateway of the world's holiest Jain pilgrimage, atmospheric even without the climb.

Things to do

›Bhomiyaji temple
›Jain museum
›Start the parikrama at dawn

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Mar

Entry fee

Free

Est. budget

₹300–1,000

Duration

Half day–1 day

Nearby attractions

Within

3 km

📍 Pilgrimage

4.5

Parasnath Hill

Jharkhand

Jharkhand's highest peak (1,365 m) is Jainism's holiest mountain — Shikharji, where twenty of the twenty-four tirthankaras attained liberation; barefoot pilgrims walk a 27-km circuit past shrines wrapped in dawn cloud.

Oct–MarFull dayExplore

11.1 km

🏞️ Lake

4.2

Topchanchi Lake

Dhanbad, Jharkhand

A 1924 colonial-era reservoir at the foot of Parasnath hill, ringed by forest and a favourite film-shoot location.

Oct–Mar2–3 hrsExplore

20.3 km

📍 Temple

4.2

Lilori Sthan Mandir

Dhanbad, Jharkhand

An ancient shrine of Maa Lilori (Kali) at Katras, the presiding goddess of the coalfield belt, thronged during Navratri.

Oct–Mar; Navratri1–2 hrsExplore