Mangeshi, which is a little village along Goa's Panaji-Ponda road is a point of pilgrimage for hundreds of tourists from all over India and abroad.

To avoid the increasing Portuguese missionary activities in Goa, the GSB community was afraid for the safety of the temples and idols.

After remaining in the house of a temple priest for sometime, the deity idol was finally installed at its present site in the village.

Their father, Deenanath Mangeshkar was born (1900) in the village of Mangueshi then in Portuguese India to a temple priest and handmaiden of the deity Manguesh.

His father was a married Karhade Brahmin pujari and his mother was his Devadasi mistress belonging to Gomantak Maratha Samaj community of Goa.