Peer Kho Cave Temple

History

Jammu’s places-of-interest narrative links the site to fifteenth-century royal Jammu and to Shaiva cave worship long before the modern city grew around Circular Road.

The cave remains one of the city’s important Shaiva stops, often visited together with nearby Rani Kalhuri Devi and Panjthirthi temples listed on the same district page.

Stories

The Cave of the Peer

The Jammu district administration records that during the reign of Raja Biram Dev of Jammu, a mendicant named Guru Garib Nath of the Gorakhnath order came to the city and lived in a cave on what is now Circular Road. In the local dialect kho means cave, and the ascetic became known as Peer-i-Kho, so the cave took his name over time. A Shivalinga is installed inside the cave.

A Cluster Along Circular Road

Peer Kho sits on Circular Road, about half a kilometre from the Rani Kalhuri Devi Temple. The district page says that temple was probably built around 1889 to 1890 by Rani Shuba Devi of Kalhur, wife of Maharaja Ranbir Singh.

That temple houses Rama and Sita on one side and Shiva and Parvati on the other. Together with Ram Talai and others nearby, these shrines make Circular Road a compact route for temple visits in old Jammu.

Good to know

Natural cave sanctum with a Shivling

Circular Road location in heritage old Jammu

Associated with Peer-i-Kho and Raja Biram Dev era per district page

Getting there

Nearest airport: Jammu (Satwari). Nearest railhead: Jammu Tawi. On Circular Road, Jammu city — about half a kilometre from Rani Kalhuri Devi temple per district description.