Karni Mata temple is a 600 year old temple at Deshnoke, Rajasthan, India. The temple is also sometimes called “The Rat Temple”. The town of Deshnoke, 30 kilometers south of Bikaner, is home to world's only temple where rats are the main creature of devotion. About 20,000 rats are fed, protected and worshiped. The Karni Mata temple is one of the more curious places in all of Rajasthan. The site has been a place of worship for the last 500 years and the current Karni Mata temple was founded by the Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner at the turn of the century. It is said that it is good luck to see a white rat at Karni Mata. It is also good luck when a rat runs over your foot.
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