Shikhar Shingnapur Sholapur,Maharastara

Shikhar Shingnapur is a historic village and religious place located on the border of the three districts of Satara , Solapur and Pune in Man Taluka of Satara District in the Indian state of Maharashtra . There is a temple of Lord Shambhu here . This temple is famous as the private temple of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maharaj himself and his family used to visit Mahadev here, also Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj had given letters of donation to this temple and both Chhatrapatis used to take complete care of the temple.

Historical significance

Shambhu Mahadev of Shikhar Shingnapur is the family deity of many people in Maharashtra . Both this temple of Mahadev and Shingnapur village are said to have been built by Chakravarti Sindhandev Maharaj of the Yadav clan. The temple has a stone wall and there are five large Nandis in the temple premises. King Singhan of the Yadav family of Devagiri had come and stayed here. He built Shingnapur village.

Since Shambhu Mahadev is the patriarch of the Bhosle family, Malojiraje Bhosle along with his family used to come here for God darshan. Seeing the plight of the devotees due to water famine, Maloji Raja came here in AD. A large pond was built here in 1600, called Pushkartirtha; It is now called Shivatirtha. Shahu Maharaj built the present temple in 1735 due to the collapse of the earlier temple. Under the supervision of Veer Sardar Baji Gole (who was appointed as Havaldar) the construction was completed, and it was also restored in 1978. An architect named Ramaswami from the south has renovated the shikhar and the temple and given it an attractive color.