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A non-profit for India's village temples

Every village temple deserves to thrive.

MyTemple connects Indians and NRIs with the temples of their native villages, towns, and cities: direct financial and logistical support for shrines that official programs overlook.

We are rebuilding MyTemple.in from the ground up. The new platform is on its way. Until then, we are one email away.

Rejuvenation, not amplification.

India's grandest temples want for nothing. Beyond them stand lakhs of small shrines: the village temples each of us grew up around, sacred to the families who still call those places home. Many can no longer afford their daily worship. Their Archakas hold on with little support, and festivals that once gathered whole villages have grown quiet.

MyTemple exists for these temples. We help you find the temples of your native place and stand behind them with direct, accountable support: for daily worship, for the priests' families who sustain it, and for the repairs that keep a sanctum open.

A small village temple mid-renovation: fresh stone columns, carved arch, and elephant sculptures above the entrance
A village sanctum dressed for worship: the murti garlanded in marigold and silk

A village temple rises again; its sanctum, dressed for the evening.

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Discover

Find the temples of your native village, town, or city, and learn what each one truly needs.

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Support

Give directly toward worship, Anna Danam, and upkeep, with receipts and full accountability.

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Empower

Sustain the Archakas and temple families who keep the sanctum lamps burning every day.

Our flagship program

MahaPrasadam

अन्नदानात् परं दानं न भूतं न भविष्यति ।

No gift is greater than the gift of food: none has been, none will be.

MahaPrasadam grants fund Archakas at small village temples to offer Anna Danam: freshly cooked, blessed food served free to every devotee, one or two days each week. A temple that feeds its visitors becomes the living center of its village again, the priest's family earns a dignified livelihood, and daily worship carries on.

Serving since 2021 in partnership with the KnowYourRoots Foundation, at small village temples across India, building toward one thousand temples.

A steel bowl of freshly prepared puliyodarai prasadam, studded with peanuts and curry leaves
Anna Danam, ready to serve.
A stone Ganesha murti wreathed in incense smoke and morning light

Give while we rebuild.

Online donations are paused during the rewrite, but the programs are not. To give toward MahaPrasadam, or toward a temple you care about, write to us and we will respond personally:

donate@mytemple.in

All gifts to MyTemple.in (EIN 88-3122095), a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. We are an 80G approved Charitable Trust (AAITM2527QF20231).