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SAI HERITAGE VILLAGE

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  Visitors in interested in delving deeper into the details of the lifestyle of Shirdi’s villagers during Sai Baba’s lifetime and major events of the holy saint’s life may visit the Sai Heritage Village. The amazing sculptures constructed in this place wonderfully depict the life, divine actions and major landmarks of Baba’s life. Baba's Palki scene, the scene showing him feeding the poor and devotees and other scenes are the major  attractions  of the property. The place also has an amusement  park  for children and adults comprising  adventure  game equipment, hammocks, machanas in trees, mono rail & ropeway. The  food  courts serve local pure  vegetarian  cuisine to the hunger-struck visitors. Shani Shingnapur

SHRI SHANI SHIGNAPUR

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  Shingnapur  is a small village near  Shirdi  where the most prominent and conscious shrine of the Hindu god Shani, son of the Sun God, exists for nearly a century now. It is also one of the landmark tourist places near Shirdi. The story of Shingnapur’s Shani temple goes something like this: once the god Shani appeared in the dream of a noble dweller of Shingnapur and asked him to visit the nearby river, remove the stone slab lying by its shore, install it in a temple and worship it with due reverence. With many efforts, the holy stone slab was taken out of the river and installed in an open air temple in the village. The presence of Lord Shani is so much pervading in the village that no thief has escaped his wrath till date. Due to this, the villagers of Shingnapur never shut their homes with doors or even feel the need to put their precious belongings under lock and safe. Devotees visiting Shirdi also come to the shrine of Shani, the God of Justice to ...