List of temples in Lahore

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|area_code = 042{{cite web

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|footnotes = Lahore Cantonment is a legally separate military-administered settlement.

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Lahore is the capital of Punjab, the most populous province of Pakistan. It has a rich cosmopolitan history and was the principal city of the vast plain of the entire Punjab region for many centuries, and was the capital of the Sikh Empire of Maharaja Ranjit Singh until the mid-1850s when it was conquered by the British. Before the partition of British India in 1947, Lahore had a large Hindu, Sikh and Jain population. In 1941, 64.5% of the population of Lahore was Muslim, while about 36% was Hindu or Sikh.{{cite web|url=http://www.sacw.net/partition/june2004IshtiaqAhmed.pdf |title=Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing in Lahore in 1947, Ishtiaq Ahmed, 2004 |access-date=24 April 2012}} At that time, the city contained numerous Hindu temples, Jain temples, and Sikh gurdwaras. The overwhelming majority of Lahore and West Punjab's non-Christian minority population fled to India at Partition, while East Punjab was similarly depopulated of almost its entire Muslim population. For example, on the eve of Partition, Amritsar was about 49% Muslim, whereas in the 1951 census, the figure had dropped to only 0.52%,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ThuAAAAMAAJ|title=Epicentre of violence: partition voices and memories from Amritsar|last1=Talbot|first1=Ian|last2=Tatla|first2=Darshan Singh|date=2006|publisher=Permanent Black|isbn=978-81-7824-131-9|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jl7ODQAAQBAJ&pg=PT2|title=Purifying the Land of the Pure: A History of Pakistan's Religious Minorities|last=Ispahani|first=Farahnaz|date=2017-01-02|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-062167-4|language=en}} while Ludhiana was 63% Muslim prior to Partition, but 97% Hindu and Sikh in the 1961 census.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WYJIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA138|title=From the Ashes of 1947|last=Virdee|first=Pippa|date=February 2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-42811-8|pages=138|language=en}} As a result of religious demographic changes and political tensions, almost all Hindu and Jain temples have been abandoned in Lahore, although several important Sikh shrines continue to operate.

The condition of temples in Lahore is not good, it is not like that the city lack temples but they are not maintained so much as Hindus migrated from Lahore in 1947 en masse. In 1992 after demolition of Babri Masjid, in Pakistan especially in Lahore, temples were attacked and destroyed, many temples were completely destructed.{{Cite web|title=The fate of Lahore's Hindu temples show the city's shift from a cosmopolitan to monolithic culture|url=https://scroll.in/article/953783/the-fate-of-lahores-hindu-temples-show-the-citys-shift-from-a-cosmopolitan-to-monolithic-culture}}