Chunne Miyan's Lakshmi Narayan Temple, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh India

Chunne Miyan’s Lakshmi Narayan Temple is situated in Koharapeer locality in Katra Maamrai region of Bareilly. It stands close to Budhwari Masjid. This is the area where the migrants from Pakistan settled after the partition of India. They built a temple at a piece of land that belonged to a Muslim, popularly addressed as Chunne Miyan. His actual name was Fazal-ul-Rahman.

Chunne Miyan filed a case against the encroachers, but one day he heard the sermon of Shri Harmilapi Ji Maharaj who came from Haridwar. He was so much enchanted by the sermon that he not only gave up his suit against the temple people, but also started supporting it financially. Since then, the name of the temple is tagged with that of Chunne Miyan and is called Chunne Miyan’s Lakshmi Narayan Temple or just Chunne Miyan’s mandir. His name is engraved on the top of the list of donors for the temple. The temple was inaugurated on May 16, 1960 by Dr. Rajendra Prasas, the then President of India. 

A temple dedicated to Hindu’s originating from Pakistan that settled in Bareilly in 1947. The migrants from Pakistan built this temple under the auspices of the man Fazal-un-Rahman popularly known as the ‘Chunne Miyan’. When Fazal-ul-Rahman, wouldn’t donate the land under which the temple was built, the migrants took up a case against him. Rather than go to court, the migrants offered that he should come to the temple himself, and he was so impressed by the sermons of HarMilapi ji Maharaj of Haridwar that he let the temple go ahead, as long as it was named after him.