Old Rangji Temple — South Indian gopuram built in Rajasthan by a Marwari.
Most travellers walk past the Rangji gopuram on the way to the Brahma Temple and read it as just another temple gate; few know it's the only Dravidian-style temple in the entire Rajasthan-Marwar belt.WHY NOBODY KNOWS
Built in 1844 by Seth Puranmal Ganeriwala — a Marwari merchant patron from Hyderabad — the Old Rangji Temple is the first temple of the South Indian Ramanuja Vaishnava sect built in Rajasthan. The towering gopuram (a defining feature of South Indian temple architecture) is a rare cross-regional architectural anomaly: a Hyderabad-stationed Marwari, pilgrimage to Tirumala and Srirangam in mind, replicating the Dravidian gopuram-and-mandapa silhouette into a Nagara-style state. The temple complex enshrines Lord Krishna and Rangnath as the main deities alongside Lakshmi, Godadevi (Andal), and Ramanujacharya. Documented in the University of Notre Dame's Indian Architecture archive as the standout Dravidian-style monument north of the Narmada.
