Pooja Room Door Designs: Wood, Jaali and Glass, with Prices

The most common pooja room door designs are carved or panelled wood, CNC-cut jaali in MDF, wood or metal, and frosted or etched glass in a wooden or aluminium frame, with bi-fold, sliding or half doors where a flat is short of space. Published prices in October 2026 run from about ₹1,500 for a ready-made PVC door, through ₹10,000 to ₹75,000 for most wooden, jaali and glass designs, up to ₹1,50,000 for deep-carved teak or rosewood.

Whichever you choose, the door has one job a bedroom door does not: it closes on a lit diya and incense, so it has to let smoke out.

About the numbers below: prices are market ranges from published sources read on 21 Oct 2026: NoBroker Interiors' glass door guide, Spacewood's and Design Cafe's jaali price guides, and IndiaMART seller listings. Few say whether GST, frame, hardware or fitting are included, so treat them as a starting point for quotes. Sizes are from Houzz India, HomeLane and BIS. "Our guidance" marks MOA's advice, not a standard.

This post is only about the door. For where the mandir goes in a flat and how big the unit should be, see our pooja room design guide for apartments. For direction and placement, see Vastu for the pooja room.

Pooja room door designs at a glance

Door type	Best for	Published price range
Wooden, panelled or carved	A traditional look, a separate pooja room	₹10,000 to ₹35,000 a door; deep carving ₹45,000 to ₹1,50,000
CNC jaali (MDF, wood, metal)	Ventilation and a visible shrine	₹200 to ₹1,500 per sq ft for the panel
Frosted, etched or reeded glass	Privacy with light, small flats	₹10,000 to ₹75,000 a door
Bi-fold or sliding	Tight passages and small rooms	₹18,000 to ₹50,000 a door in glass
Half door or gate	Open shrines, homes with children	Priced like a jaali or wooden door of the same area
Ready-made PVC	Rentals and tight budgets	₹1,500 to ₹5,000 a door

Wooden pooja room door designs

HomeLane notes that wooden engravings are among the most popular pooja door designs in India (HomeLane). The choice is really between three builds:

Panelled teak, sal or sheesham. A frame with raised or flat panels. On IndiaMART's wooden pooja door listings, most priced doors fall between ₹10,000 and ₹35,000 a piece, for example a 36 by 84 inch carved teak door at ₹17,500 from a seller in Avinashi and a 7 by 5 ft laminated sagwan door at ₹30,000 in Bengaluru (IndiaMART).
Deep hand carving. The same listings include teak doors at ₹81,000 and rosewood or custom wooden doors at ₹1,50,000 a piece. NoBroker gives ₹45,000 to ₹1,10,000 for a carved wooden door with glass inserts, depending on carving depth and size (NoBroker Interiors).
Flush door with veneer or laminate. The cheapest wood look. BIS sets flush shutters at 25, 30 or 35 mm thick, by size (BIS product manual, IS 2202 Part 1).

Listings priced by area range more widely, mostly from ₹260 per sq ft for a 32 mm teak door in Ahmedabad, through ₹650 for a teak door in Agra, to ₹2,800 for a teak door from a handicrafts firm in Kumta. A 3 by 7 ft opening is 21 sq ft, so at ₹650 per sq ft the shutters alone come to about ₹13,650 before frame, hardware, polish and GST (our arithmetic on one seller's rate).

Our guidance: ask for a jaali or louvred panel in the top third, or a solid door turns a small pooja room into a smoke box.

Jaali doors: MDF, wood and metal

A jaali door does what a solid door cannot: it closes the shrine and still lets air, light and the sight of the diya through. The pattern is usually cut by CNC router or laser, and the material sets the price.

Jaali material	Published rate per sq ft	Source
MDF, before lamination or paint	₹200 to ₹350	Spacewood
MDF, laser-cut	₹90 to ₹450	Design Cafe
HDHMR	₹300 to ₹500	Spacewood
PVC or WPC	₹250 to ₹450	Spacewood
Acrylic	₹350 to ₹700	Spacewood
Solid teak or sheesham	₹700 to ₹1,500 and up	Spacewood
Metal (MS, steel, corten, brass), powder-coated	₹500 to ₹1,200 and up	Spacewood
Marble	₹850 to ₹2,800	Design Cafe

Spacewood says its figures cover cutting and basic finishing, and that denser patterns cost more because they take more machine time (Spacewood). Design Cafe's guide gives the MDF and marble rates (Design Cafe). For a whole door, NoBroker puts a CNC-cut panel with toughened glass behind it at ₹18,000 to ₹32,000.

Our guidance: MDF suits a dry flat; choose HDHMR, PVC or metal near a bathroom wall or in a damp coastal city. A glass backing keeps dust out but blocks airflow, so leave the top panel open.

Pooja room glass door design: frosted, etched and reeded

HomeLane suggests frosted glass for privacy, and plain or decorated glass doors for apartments. Glass lets the lamp glow through.

A pair of full-height doors with frosted glass panels in slim dark frames and long brass bar handles, lit warmly from behind so the glass glows, set in a white wall above a wooden floor. — Frosted glass in a slim frame: light from inside the shrine glows through while the view stays private. Image: Andrea De Santis on Pexels, Pexels License

NoBroker's guide, last updated in June 2026, gives these approximate costs per door, and says most of its designs use 8 to 10 mm toughened glass:

Single glass door: ₹10,000 to ₹24,000
Etched glass with a motif: ₹15,000 to ₹28,000
Reeded glass: ₹20,000 to ₹38,000
Panelled wooden frame with glass, about 3 by 7 ft: ₹22,000 to ₹45,000
Backlit etched glass: ₹25,000 to ₹55,000
Wooden door with artistic glass: ₹32,000 to ₹75,000

The guide does not say whether these include GST or fitting. If you are pricing the glass separately, decorative etched glass on IndiaMART is mostly listed between ₹75 and ₹500 per sq ft, depending on thickness, toughening and design (IndiaMART). One Hyderabad maker lists finished pooja room glass doors at ₹600 to ₹700 per sq ft (KGN Glass Designs on IndiaMART).

Ask for toughened glass in writing. Our guidance on motifs: a simple om, lotus or bell outline etched into the glass reads well from across a room, and keeps detailed images of deities for the shrine itself rather than a surface people push and knock.

Pooja room door design with bells

Small brass bells on the shutters or the frame are one of the most searched details. They are cheap: IndiaMART's hanging bell listings run from about ₹90 to ₹520 a piece for small brass and door bells, with larger temple bells at ₹1,200 to ₹1,250 (IndiaMART).

Close-up of small brass bells with a worn antique finish hanging on cords in clusters, with a soft blurred background. — Small brass bells of the kind hung on pooja door shutters or frames, usually a few hundred rupees each. Image: grunge texture on Pexels, Pexels License

Our guidance on fixing them:

Hang them on the face of the shutter or the head of the frame, not near the hinges, where a swinging bell gets trapped.
On glass, fix bells to the frame only. Never let a bell swing against the glass.
Keep them above head height on a full door and clear of the diya when the door is open.

Pooja room door design for small flats: bi-fold, sliding and half doors

In a flat the pooja room often opens off a passage or the dining area, so the floor in front of it is shared. A single hinged door on a 3 ft opening sweeps a quarter circle 3 ft deep. Houzz India suggests double-door shutters for small puja rooms so the full width of the mandir opens (Houzz India), and that also halves the swing.

Six plan drawings to one scale of door types for a 900 mm pooja room opening, each opening outward into the living room, with the swept floor shaded: a single hinged door sweeping 900 mm; a double door with two 450 mm leaves sweeping 450 mm; a two-panel bi-fold folding to one side with a stack about 450 mm deep; a four-panel bi-fold folding both ways with stacks about 225 mm deep; a two-leaf sliding door with no swing that needs 450 mm of clear wall on each side; and a half door or gate with the same 450 mm sweep as a double door. — How much floor each door type takes in front of a 900 mm opening. Drawn to one scale; check the hardware maker's sheet for exact stack sizes. Diagram: MOA

Bi-fold doors

Hinged panels that fold on a top track. Four panels, two each side, need the least floor of any hinged option. NoBroker prices foldable glass doors with two or four shutters at ₹18,000 to ₹35,000 and notes that hardware quality has a large effect on the cost. Folding door hardware sets on IndiaMART are mostly listed at ₹2,000 to ₹10,000, rated by panel weight (IndiaMART). Check the weight rating, especially for glass.

Sliding doors

No swing at all, but the leaves need clear wall to park on, so a sliding door suits a pooja room on a long, empty wall. NoBroker gives ₹25,000 to ₹50,000 for sliding glass doors with decorative borders, with track quality and carving pushing the price up. Our sliding versus hinged wardrobe guide covers the same trade-offs in track and hardware.

Floor-to-ceiling frosted glass sliding panels in thin metal frames with recessed pull handles, one panel slid aside to show a bright gap, under a dark wood-veneer panel, with a palm leaf in the foreground. — Sliding frosted glass panels need no swing space, only clear wall to park on. Image: Bali Demiri on Pexels, Pexels License

Half doors, gates and curtains

Low leaves in wood, mild steel or brass bars keep toddlers and pets from the diya while the shrine stays in view, and block no air. We found no published price for half doors; price one as a wooden or jaali door of the same area.

Some families skip the door altogether. In this Raipur flat by Byoura Design Studio, the Nestle 602 project, the mandir sits in an arched alcove closed by tie-back linen curtains.

A pooja alcove at the end of a short passage in a Raipur flat: a walnut-laminate surround with a three-lobed arched opening, a wallpaper of small palm motifs inside, white linen curtains tied back on slim brass rods, a ledge with framed pictures, a brass lamp and a brass plate, two rows of drawers below and an upholstered stool in front. — No door at all: a cut-out arch with tie-back curtains closes this mandir in a 3BHK flat in Raipur, with drawers below for samagri. Image: Byoura Design Studio on MOA

Our guidance: curtains are the cheapest and most breathable closure, but fabric burns. Tie them well back, as here, whenever a lamp is lit.

PVC doors

The budget option. Priced IndiaMART listings are mostly ₹1,500 to ₹5,000 a piece, in sizes such as 600 by 2050 mm (IndiaMART). A few show a few hundred rupees "per piece"; ask what that covers.

Ventilation for diya and agarbatti smoke

A closed pooja room holds a flame and incense. Houzz India says a puja room must have provision for windows and ventilation, and HomeLane says proper ventilation is needed. The door is the easiest place for it.

A tall silver-toned standing oil lamp with a peacock finial garlanded with jasmine, one wick lit, against a plain cream wall with brass plates blurred in the foreground. — An open flame inside a closed shrine is why the door needs a way for air and smoke to move. Image: Dream_ maKkerzz on Pexels, Pexels License

Our guidance for the door:

Open high. Warm smoke rises, so a jaali or louvre panel in the top third of the door lets it out even when the door is shut.
Let air in low. A gap under the door or a low jaali lets room air replace it.
Glass needs help. A full glass door seals the room. Pair it with a jaali transom above, a vent in the wall, or keep it open while the lamp burns.
Keep the flame away from the door. Put the diya at the back of the ledge on a brass or stone plate, not near a jaali or curtain.

Our pooja room design guide covers safe distances for the flame and what research says about incense smoke.

Pooja room door size

Houzz India and HomeLane both give the same minimum doorway: at least 2 ft 6 in wide and 7 ft high. HomeLane adds that the door should open outward, so it does not disturb people seated inside.

Three drawings. A: elevation of a double pooja room door at least 760 mm (2 ft 6 in) wide and 2,135 mm (7 ft) high, each leaf with a jaali panel at the top, frosted glass with a simple etched motif in the middle, a solid wooden base panel and small brass bells near the meeting stiles. B: the same doorway with a low two-leaf gate of vertical bars and the top left open. C: a section through a small pooja room showing smoke from a diya on a ledge rising to the ceiling and leaving through a high vent in the back wall and a high jaali in the door, with room air coming in low under the door. — Door size, panel order and the path smoke takes. Doorway minimum from Houzz India and HomeLane; items marked with a star are MOA guidance. Diagram: MOA

Factory flush doors follow BIS modular designations such as 8 DS 20, 9 DS 21 and 12 DT 21 (D for door, S for a single shutter, T for a double-leaf shutter). We read the numbers as an opening of 800 to 1,200 mm by 2,000 or 2,100 mm. The same manual allows any other size as agreed between maker and buyer, which is how most custom pooja doors are made. Wooden pooja door listings on IndiaMART show heights of 80 to 84 inches and widths of 32 to 38 inches for single doors.

Small size: an opening narrower than 2 ft 6 in is usually a pooja unit with cabinet shutters; our apartment pooja guide covers unit sizes.

Pooja room door design price list, 2026

Horizontal range chart of published pooja room door prices per door, read 21 October 2026: PVC ready-made door 1,500 to 5,000 rupees; single glass door 10,000 to 24,000; wooden door plain or lightly carved 10,000 to 35,000; etched glass door 15,000 to 28,000; CNC jaali panel with glass backing 18,000 to 32,000; folding glass door 18,000 to 35,000; sliding glass doors with trims 25,000 to 50,000; wooden door with art glass 32,000 to 75,000; deep-carved teak or rosewood door 45,000 to 1,50,000. Sources are NoBroker Interiors and IndiaMART listings. — Published price ranges per door, from NoBroker's glass door guide and IndiaMART listings, read 21 Oct 2026. Market ranges, not quotes. Diagram: MOA

Item	Published range	Unit
PVC pooja door, ready-made	₹1,500 to ₹5,000	per door
Wooden door, plain or lightly carved	₹10,000 to ₹35,000	per door
Deep-carved teak or rosewood door	₹45,000 to ₹1,50,000	per door
Glass door designs	₹10,000 to ₹75,000	per door
Wooden door, priced by area	mostly ₹260 to ₹2,800	per sq ft
CNC jaali panel	₹90 to ₹1,500 and up	per sq ft
Etched decorative glass	₹75 to ₹500	per sq ft
Brass hanging bells	₹90 to ₹1,250, most under ₹520	per bell
Folding or sliding hardware set	₹2,000 to ₹10,000	per set

A fair quote names:

Shutter material and thickness, such as 30 mm teak or 8 mm toughened glass.
Whether the frame (chaukhat) is new.
Hardware brand and model.
Finish: polish, PU, laminate or paint.
Delivery, fitting and GST, each as a separate line.

If the pooja door is part of a larger fit-out, our room-by-room interior cost guide shows how carpentry is priced, and MOA's free home cost calculator gives a whole-home estimate.

FAQ

What is the cost of a pooja room door in India?

Published prices in October 2026: ₹1,500 to ₹5,000 for PVC, ₹10,000 to ₹35,000 for most wooden doors, ₹10,000 to ₹75,000 for glass, and up to ₹1,50,000 for deep carving. Check what is included.

Which pooja room door is best for a small flat?

A four-panel bi-fold or a two-leaf sliding door takes the least floor. A double door with a jaali top halves the swing and lets smoke out.

What is the price of a pooja room glass door?

NoBroker gives ₹10,000 to ₹24,000 for a single glass door, up to ₹75,000 for wood with art glass. One Hyderabad maker lists ₹600 to ₹700 per sq ft.

Should a pooja room door open inside or outside?

Outward, as HomeLane advises, so it does not hit anyone seated inside.

What is the standard size of a pooja room door?

At least 2 ft 6 in wide and 7 ft high, per Houzz India and HomeLane.

Planning a pooja room door with the rest of your interiors? Find an interior designer on MOA, and filter the directory by your city.

Sources

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Spacewood: CNC Jali Design Ideas for Every Room: Patterns, Materials and a Price Guide (accessed 21 Oct 2026)
Design Cafe: Pooja Mandir Jali Design (Parvathy Jayakrishnan, 10 Feb 2026) (accessed 21 Oct 2026)
HomeLane: 5 Unique Pooja Unit Design Ideas Every Indian Home Needs (accessed 21 Oct 2026)
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