Sundarnarayan Temple is located on the elevated west bank of
Godavari River, in
Nasik District,
Maharashtra. The presiding deity here is
Lord Vishnu, popularly known here as ‘Sundarnarayan’. This east facing temple has three black images of Lord Vishnu.
Goddess Lakshmi and
Goddess Saraswathi are flanked on either sides of the deity.
Sundarnarayan Temple was built by Gangadhar Yashwant Chandrachud in 1756. The round dome of the two mandaps is made by little ornamental cordons. The temple hall can be entered through three porches, each with balcony seating, lobed arches and slightly spherical domes. Angled eaves and serpentine pediments head the doorways inside the porches. Small carvings of Lord Hanuman, Lord Vishnu and Lord Indra adorns the temple walls.
Most noteworthy feature of the temple is that the rays of the rising Sun first falls exactly upon the idols on a particular day of every year.
