Shree SHANTADURGA TEMPLE has an impressive idol of Goddess Shree Durga who mediated between Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva and stopped the fierceful war going on between the two.
She is flanked by Vishnu and Shiva on both the sides. The temples of Shree Shantadurga and Shree Mangesh, two of the most revered patron deities of the Hindu Goud Saraswat Brahmin community are located in Queula and Mangeshi respectively in the Ponda district of South Goa.
This avatar of Shree Jagdamba Devi which had come to make peace [Shanti] between Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva, came to be known as Shree Shantadurga Devi.
