Vinayak & Nageshwar Temple

The story of Vinayak & Nageshwar Temple

Vinayak & Nageshwar Temple is a Hindu place of worship in Bellandur, a suburb in south-east Bangalore. The temple itself has no separate historical account here, so the clearest thing to notice is simply that it is a working shrine in a busy urban neighbourhood.

Bellandur is bounded by HSR Layout to the west, Devarabisanahalli to the east, Sarjapur Road to the south, and Bellandur Lake to the north. That lake is the largest lake in Bangalore and separates Bellandur from the HAL Airport, so this temple sits in a part of the city shaped by major roads and water.

The name joins Vinayak and Nageshwar, pointing to worship here of Ganesha and a Shiva form. For a traveller, that means this is not a monument to read from a distance but a place that belongs to daily devotion.

If you want to visit, it is open 24 hours every day of the week. That makes it one of the easier stops to fit into a route through Bellandur, especially if you are moving between the neighbourhood’s roads and the lake edge.