Online Puja at Temples: How It Works

Not everyone can travel to Kashi, Tirupati or a distant family temple for a puja. An online temple puja is performed at the temple in your name by the temple’s pandit, and you receive photos and video of the ritual.

1. Choose the puja and temple — for example a Rudrabhishekam at a Jyotirlinga or a Pitru Paksha tarpan at a tirtha.
2. Pick a date — pujas are performed on available dates, often on special tithis.
3. Share the sankalpa details — names, gotra, nakshatra and rashi of each devotee, and your prayer or intention.
4. The puja is performed — the pandit takes the sankalpa with your names and performs the ritual.
5. Photos and video — you receive them in your account, often the same day.
6. Prasad — if you choose, prasad is couriered to your address.

The sankalpa is the formal statement of who is performing the puja, where, when and why. Saying your names and gotra connects the ritual to you — which is why accurate details matter. If you don’t know your nakshatra, the Nakshatra calculator can find it from your birth details.

Traditionally a puja may be performed on someone’s behalf by a priest — the sankalpa is what makes it yours. Many families use online pujas for ancestors, for relatives abroad and for temples they cannot reach.

For a puja in your own home with the family present, book a pandit to visit, or a live video puja where the pandit performs it with you on a call.

Explore online pujas at temples.