Delhi Temples Tour: 5-Hour Private Spiritual Experience

Four faiths in an afternoon, in a city that holds all of them.

Delhi's religious buildings are spread across eight centuries and several traditions, and seeing them in one run tells you more about the city than any single monument does.

Where you go

Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, the Sikh temple with its golden dome and sacred pool. The langar here serves free food to anyone who comes — tens of thousands of meals a day, cooked and served entirely by volunteers, no questions asked about who you are. You can go into the kitchen and see it running, and it is the single most affecting thing on this tour.

The Lotus Temple, the Bahá'í House of Worship completed in 1986: twenty-seven marble petals, no idols, no sermons, and silence observed inside.

Akshardham, finished in 2005, pink sandstone and white marble with no structural steel and around 20,000 carved figures.

And a Jain temple in Old Delhi, the oldest in the city, which runs a bird hospital next door treating thousands of birds a year, free.

Options

Three at checkout: car and guide, with food added, or with tickets as well.

Included

Private air-conditioned vehicle, English-speaking driver and local guide, and food and beverages on the options that list them.

Worth knowing

Who it suits

Travellers interested in living religious practice rather than ruins, anyone who has done the forts, and visitors who want to understand how Delhi actually works.