3 Religion

They worship Vishwakarma since they have descended from him.Chari are Smarthas^{[citation needed]} still their main community deity is ‘Shree Ragunath (Ram)’ of Gimoney. This temple has history of more than 500 years. It was destroyed by Moghal aggression in 16 century but Chari reconstructed it. They have Shree Ram’s temples at Mayade and Vasco. Also the main goddess to whom every Vishwakarma people worships is Kalika. Her temple is situated at Merces known as Morambo in ancient times. She is called Kalamba which is corrupt form of Kalika Amba. It has history around 1,500 years old^{[citation needed]}. It was a main deity of Lohamath , which was Chari’s Gurupith. During the Portuguese times it was destroyed by them . later in nineteenth century it was again set up by Swamy Ramchandra Puna Charya who had taken diksha from swamy of Lohamath Swamy Padmanabhachary , &with his guidance he reinstall the temple. Along with goddess Kalamba he set up Siddeshwar.^{[citation needed]}