Shree Siddhivinayak Temple

This guide to Shree Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai begins in 1801, when a Bombay woman named Deubai Patil, unable to have children of her own, funded a small twelve-foot brick shrine in Prabhadevi so that other women might pray there for a child. You'll hear how that single room, barely large enough for twenty people, held a black stone idol of Ganesha flanked by the goddesses Riddhi and Siddhi. Listen for how one woman's quiet act of faith grew into the busiest devotional site in the city.