Digambar Jain Temple site features

A red-sandstone façade rises directly from the Old Delhi street, with pointed openings, projecting balconies and a cluster of pale-tipped spires above the roofline. The building is compact compared with the Red Fort opposite.

Inside, rooms narrow around devotional images and offerings rather than opening into one vast hall. Repeated additions make the plan feel layered. Behind the temple, a separate mid-twentieth-century building houses the bird hospital and its treatment spaces.

The red façade

Early 19th century and later. Sandstone, arches and clustered spires give Lal Mandir its street identity.

The sanctuary

Established 1656; altered later. Compact worship rooms contain Jain devotional images and objects.

The bird hospital

1957. A separate building behind the temple continues an animal-care institution founded in 1930.

The Chandni Chowk setting

Since the 17th century. The temple remains part of a mixed religious and commercial streetscape opposite the Red Fort.