2,000 ghee lamps lit during Gopashtami at world first Maat Pitaah Temple in Mohali
Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria was chief guest
City Air News
Oct 30, 2025 08:41
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Chandigarh, October 30, 2025: Gopashtami festival was celebrated with pomp and grandeur at Maat Pitaah Godham Mahatirth located on Banur-Ambala Road, Mohali. On this occasion, devotees expressed their faith by lighting more than 2000 desi ghee lamps. Hundreds of devotees from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and Delhi participated in the festival worship Gomata.
Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria was chief guest on the occasion. National Award-winning Bollywood actor and producer Vijay Tandon, Senior Vice President of the All-India Agrawal Sammelan (Haryana), Jagmohan Garg, were present as special guests. Social worker Satyabhagwan Singla, President of Sanatan Dharma Baikunth Dham Pradeep Goyal, and Founder of Planet Ayurveda, Dr. Vikram Chauhan were special guests during the occasion.
In the program, Akhil Bhartiya Gao Katha Vachak Shri Chandrakant and bhajan singer Shri Hit Sharan Siddharth Bhaiya ji mesmerized the devotees with their kathas and bhajans.
In the World Record Book (London), the temple has been given the status of being the only temple in the world devoted to parents, which does not have the idol of any deity. Devotees can remember and worship his or her parents in the temple.
