How to make a free website for your Ganesh mandal
About 5 minutes
A Ganesh mandal can have its own website, free, in about five minutes. You need a name, a city and one photo. The page holds your aarti timings, the pandal location on a map, a photo gallery and a UPI link for donations, and it works as a single link you can send on WhatsApp.
Steps
- 1
Open utsavmandal.com and choose your kind of Ganpati
A sarvajanik mandal, a housing society, an office, or a home Ganpati. This decides one important thing: a home Ganpati page is unlisted by default, so it stays out of public search and the directory while still working as a link you can share with family.
- 2
Enter the mandal name, city and locality
The name is what appears on the page and in the link. Use the name people already say — not an abbreviation — because it is what they will search for.
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Add one good photo of the Ganpati
One clear photo taken straight on, in daylight or with the pandal lights on. This becomes the picture that shows when the link is shared on WhatsApp, so it matters more than any other single thing on the page.
- 4
Fill in the aarti and darshan timings
Morning aarti, evening aarti, and the hours darshan is open. This is what most visitors came to check, and a page that answers it is the one that gets forwarded.
- 5
Paste your Google Maps link and your UPI ID
The maps link puts a pin on the page so a visitor can navigate to the pandal. The UPI ID becomes a QR code and a pay button — donations go straight to your account; there is no platform cut.
- 6
Publish and share the link
The page is live immediately at your own address. Put it in the mandal WhatsApp group, the Instagram bio and on the pandal banner as a QR code.
What it costs
The page is free. There is no subscription, no per-visitor charge, and no commission on donations — a UPI payment goes from the visitor to your account directly.
The only paid things are optional: a short custom name (like navtarun.utsavmandal.com) or your own domain. A mandal that never buys either keeps every feature described here.
What to put on the page during the festival
Update the photo gallery each day — visitors return to a page that changed. If you have a live darshan stream on YouTube or Instagram, add the link; it turns the page into the thing people open every evening.
If your mandal collects donations, publish where the money goes. A short account of what was collected and what it was spent on does more for trust than any design.
Should a home Ganpati have a page?
Yes, and it is treated differently. A home Ganpati page is unlisted: it is reachable by its link, and deliberately left out of search engines, the public directory and the sitemap. A family can send it to relatives without putting their home address on a public list.
You can still enter a home Ganpati in the public vote contest — that page shows only the name, the city and the photo, never the address or phone number.
Common questions
- Is it really free to make a Ganesh mandal website?
- Yes. Creating and publishing the page costs nothing, and there is no subscription. Only a custom short name or your own domain is paid, and both are optional.
- Do I need to know how to build a website?
- No. You fill in a form — name, city, timings, photos, UPI ID — and the page is generated. No code, no hosting and no domain purchase are needed.
- Can the page take donations directly?
- Yes, through UPI. You paste your UPI ID and the page shows a QR code and a pay button. The money goes from the donor to your account; utsavmandal takes no commission.
- Can the page be in Marathi?
- Yes. The page and the whole site are available in Marathi, Hindi and English.
- How long does it take?
- About five minutes if you have the mandal name, a photo and your aarti timings ready.