Shri Mangesh — also popularly known as Mangireesh or Manguesh — is the Presiding Deity at one of Goa?s most prominent temples. Shri Mangesh is the Kuladevata (family deity) of millions of Hindu GSBs around the world.

The temple of Shri Mangesh is set amidst natural beauty and pleasant surroundings.

Mangeshi, a little village along Goa?s Panaji-Ponda road is not only a point of pilgrimage for the followers of the Lord, it attracts hundreds of tourists from all over India and abroad.

The temple is a modern piece of architecture blended with traditional Hindu pattern. The entrance to the temple bears an image, which wards off every thing impure from the inner precincts of the temple and maintains its sanctity.

In front of the entrance but slightly to the north stands the Deepa Stambha, the column of lights. History does not record when it was built, but judging by the pattern of its construction, it might have been built during the first half of the eighteenth century. It is the tallest and most imposing column in Goa and looks most beautiful on festival nights when illuminated with traditional oil lamps.