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Jitto Baba temple is another  famous temple near katra.  It's about 6.5 kms ftom katra overlooking the Trikuta mountain range. Aghar Jitto Baba was an ardent devotee of Maa Vaishno Devi.  Everyday he used to climb to Trikuta mountain to have Darshan if Maa and worship her and return back to his place which is overlooking the mountain.  He used to do this for 16 years without missing even a single day.  Pleased with such a devotion Maa Vaishno Devi appeared before him and asked him what he wanted.  He said there is no water source in the place where he is and so Maa ensured that Pure water came through to his ashram. His next wish was that - Maa am getting old and will not be able to continue to be climb the Trikuta mountain everyday to have your darshan. So please come and Stay with me forever.  Immediately Maa came down with him as a kanya or a small girl.   There is A huge statue of Baba holding the hand of a small girl looking at the Triku...

What a magnificent temple it is - The Raghunath Temple @ Jammu.   Though the main deity is Lord Rama and his parivar, it has all Gods Sannidhis too.  The priest takes time to explain about the temple depsite the crowd that is present there.  They also allow the devotees to take photographs of the murti, while prevent anyone taking selfies.  It is a huge temple with separate sannidhis for the Gods.   And the important thing is that it is believed that there is 1 crore Saligraman in this temple.   Room after room on the pathway there are thousands of saligramam in each room.   There is a a huge beautiful Spatike Lingam behind which is Nataraja idol.  So surprising to see the Statue of Nataraja in a North Indian temple.    This is in the main market area of the Jammu city and is easily accessable by car, auto, etc.  Despite the crowd, the temple being big, it becomes easy to have darhsan at every sannandhi. History ...

Nau Devi Temple is really a powerful Temple tucked into a prinsitine  surroundings.  It is about 6 kms from katra.  This is also a cave temple. You need to go down about 100 steps to enter the tiny cave.  In some places you have to be  crawl on your fours to reach the sanctum sanctorum.   The Goddessess are in the form of 9 “pind” (stone murthis) which are incarnations of Goddess Durga namely  Shailaputri Devi,  Bharmachirini,  Chandraghanta,  Kushmanda,  Skanda mata,  Katyayani,  Maha Kali,  Maha Gauri Siddhidatri.   There are two caves here, one housing a Shiva Linga and the other the Nau Devis. #naudevitemplekatra #jammutemples #katratemples  

  On  the way to Katra from  Jammu is a small detour to this temple. Kol Kandoli Temple is situated in Nagrota city  at  distance of 14 km from Jammu. This temple is part of lot of folk lore.  Its believed that Mata Vaishno spent her early years here and the pind( the stone Pratima) is of a small girl.  The temple also has  Lord Ram's  Parivar,  Hanuman,  Shiva, sanieshwaran, kali Mata, Puri Jagannath.  The temple theerthan is supposed to have been brought out by Kol Mata herself to quench the thirst of Bheema.     It's a small temple with each sanandhi separately being maintained by one poojari.   Most surprising is to see the priest of Ram a and Saneeshwara temple being maintained by priests from Tamil Nadu here.  There was a sadhu from Thiruvanamalai who settled years ago in this place.  The whole temple is under the control of Army and he got the permission to build Ramar temple as well as...