| Mangueshi | |
| Other Name: | Girisha |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | India Goa#India |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Goa, India |
| Coordinates: | 15.4466°N 73.9701°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  India |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Goa |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | North Goa |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics Type1: | Languages |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
| Demographics1 Info1: | Konkani |
| Timezone1: | IST |
| Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
| Postal Code Type: | PIN |
| Postal Code: | 403404 |
| Registration Plate: | GA |
| Blank2 Name Sec1: | Nearest city |
| Blank2 Info Sec1: | Ponda |
Mangueshi is a village located within Ponda taluka in the coastal state of Goa, India. Mangueshi or Mangueshim are other variations for the same name.
The temple of Shri Mangesh is set amidst natural surroundings. 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.
The temples of Shree Shantadurga located at Kavale village, Navdurga at Madkai, and Shree Mangesh, are three revered patron deities of GSB families in Goa are a must visit for any devotee/ tourist coming to Goa.
The original site of Sri Mangueshi Temple is Kushasthali or Cortalim in Salcette Taluka. To avoid the increasing Portuguese missionary activities in Goa, the GSB community was afraid for the safety of the temples and idols. Hence the families worshipping Shree Shantadurga and Shree Manguesh, on a moonless night, leaving their homes and hearths crossed over the Zuari River to a safer region which was under the rule of the Muslim King Adilshah.
After remaining in the house of a temple priest for sometime, the deity idol was finally installed at its present site in the village.
The territory of Ponda was not under Portuguese rule in the 16th Century and hence was seen as a safe haven by the Hindus fleeing persecution by the Jesuits and Portuguese. The forests of Ponda were ideal places for Hindus to form makeshift temples with the Idols they had salvaged from the broken temples of Sashti (Salsette).
The famous musical family of the Mangeshkar's belong to this village of Mangeshi. 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 mother tongue was Konkani. His father was a married Karhade Brahmin pujari and his mother was his Devadasi mistress belonging to Gomantak Maratha Samaj community of Goa.[1] [2]
Deenanath's father had the last name Hardikar;,[3] but Deenanath did not inherit his father's Brahmin caste and surname because his parents were not married to each other.[4] Deenanath adopted the surname Mangeshkar in order to identify his family with his native town - Mangueshi.
Mangueshi is 37.92 km from Dabolim Airport.Goa Dabolim Airport is well connected from all major cities of India & abroad.