In the eighteenth century, the people from the Worli region had immersed the three idols of the Goddesses into the Worli sea to avoid destruction of the idols by the Muslim invaders. Subsequently, during the British Rule, Lord Horneby decided to connect the Worli creek and Malabar Hill creek and the contract was awarded to Mr. Ramji Shivji Prabhu, a government engineer. He and his team were not in a position to connect the two islands and could not complete the project on account of the heavy sea waves. One night in his dream, Shree Mahalakshmi Goddess instructed him to take out all the idols which were in Worli sea creek and place them on top of the hillock. He promised the Goddess that he will take them out from the creek and install them in a temple on top of the hillock. Accordingly, the team working for the construction of connecting the two creeks took out all the three idols from the Worli creek. After this, they succeeded in ... More

In the eighteenth century, the people from the Worli region had immersed the three idols of the Goddesses into the Worli sea to avoid destruction of the idols by the Muslim invaders. Subsequently, during the British Rule, Lord Horneby decided to connect the Worli creek and Malabar Hill creek and the contract was awarded to Mr. Ramji Shivji Prabhu, a government engineer. He and his team were not in a position to connect the two islands and could not complete the project on account of the heavy sea waves. One night in his dream, Shree Mahalakshmi Goddess instructed him to take out all the idols which were in Worli sea creek and place them on top of the hillock. He promised the Goddess that he will take them out from the creek and install them in a temple on top of the hillock. Accordingly, the team working for the construction of connecting the two creeks took out all the three idols from the Worli creek. After this, they succeeded in connecting the two creeks. After the completion of this work, Ramji obtained a ground on the hillock as a gift from the English rulers. He then constructed the Mahalakshmi Temple on the top of the hillock by spending approximately Rs.80,000/-. As per the records, this temple was constructed between 1761 to 1771.