Pooja Room Cost in India (2026): Pooja Unit and Room Prices, Line by Line

Pooja room interior design costs about ₹8,000 to ₹85,000 for a wall-mounted pooja unit, ₹15,000 to ₹1.35 lakh for a floor-standing unit in the living room, and ₹40,000 to ₹2.8 lakh for a small 4 by 5 ft pooja room with a door, marble cladding, a back-lit panel, a false ceiling and lights. Those are totals of our line-by-line worked examples below, including GST, built from listings and government rates read on 22 October 2026.

About the numbers below: every line uses a published rate read on 22 Oct 2026: Wooden Street and Philips product pages (prices including taxes), IndiaMART seller listings, NoBroker Interiors, Asian Paints Beautiful Homes, Spacewood and Design Cafe guides (market ranges, mostly silent on tax and fitting), an InfraLens rate analysis for electrical points, and CPWD's Delhi Schedule of Rates 2023 for marble work, which already includes labour and 18% GST. Budget, mid and premium use the low, middle and top of each band. They are illustrations, not quotes. Sizes are MOA's worked example.

This post is about money. For layouts and materials, see our pooja room design guide for apartments; for direction, Vastu for the pooja room. Unit sizes and heights, and door types, have their own guides in this series: mandir design for flats, and pooja room door designs with prices.

Pooja room design price at a glance

Range chart on a log scale of nine worked examples of pooja room cost in India, totals including GST. Wall-mounted pooja unit about 600 by 750 by 300 mm: budget 8,139 rupees, mid 19,153, premium 83,770. Floor-standing unit in a living room about 760 by 1,830 by 450 mm: budget 15,139, mid 47,672, premium 1.35 lakh. Small 4 by 5 ft pooja room with door, cladding, back-lit panel, ceiling and lights: budget 40,091, mid 1.06 lakh, premium 2.79 lakh. — Nine worked examples built line by line from listings and CPWD rates read on 22 Oct 2026. Illustrative totals, not quotes. Diagram: MOA

Option	Budget	Mid	Premium
Wall-mounted pooja unit	₹8,139	₹19,153	₹83,770
Floor-standing unit, living room	₹15,139	₹47,672	₹1,34,738
Pooja room, 4 x 5 ft	₹40,091	₹1,06,463	₹2,78,997

As a cross-check, NoBroker's June 2026 guide gives ₹8,000 to ₹80,000 for wall-mounted corner units across its finish levels and ₹40,000 to ₹2,50,000 for a floor-to-ceiling mandir, with installation of ₹3,000 to ₹8,000 possibly extra (NoBroker Interiors). Our examples sit inside those bands.

GST on a pooja room: 18% on a works contract

A firm that supplies material and fits it into your home is doing a works contract, which the GST Council's guide defines to include fitting out and installation in immovable property, at 18% (GST Council). In the tables, "GST at 18%" is added only to contractor-billed lines whose source does not include tax. Three kinds of line already include it:

CPWD marble items. The DSR 2023 preface says the effect of GST at 18% on works contracts is built into every item, and that rates are Delhi market rates of April 2023 (CPWD DSR 2023, Vol. 1).
Retail products priced "inclusive of all taxes", such as Wooden Street units and Philips lights.
Ready-made goods you buy yourself carry the goods rate for their classification, not the works contract rate. The GST Council's September 2025 changes moved some handicrafts, including carved stone products and idols of stone and wood, to 5% (GST Council, 56th meeting). Ask the seller to print the HSN code and rate on the invoice.

Pooja unit price: wall-mounted

The example is a unit about 600 mm wide, 750 mm tall and 300 mm deep, or 5 sq ft of front.

Line	Budget	Mid	Premium
Unit	Ready-made sheesham, 18 x 11 x 22 in: ₹7,999	Ply and laminate, 5 sq ft at ₹1,850: ₹9,250	Corian unit up to 600 x 600 x 300 mm: ₹60,000
Carpenter labour	Included	5 sq ft at ₹400: ₹2,000	In the unit price
Fixing	Hardware included	With labour	₹8,000
Marble ledge, 600 x 300, moulded edge	None	₹800	Corian top
MDF CNC jaali back, 5 sq ft at ₹275	None	₹1,375	None
PU polish on jaali, 5 sq ft at ₹190	None	₹950	None
LED strip, 5 m	None	₹510	₹510
Electrical point for the switch	None	₹1,250	₹1,500
Brass bell	₹140	₹350	₹1,250
GST at 18% on contractor lines	In price	₹2,668	₹12,510
Total	₹8,139	₹19,153	₹83,770

Where the lines come from:

Budget: Wooden Street's Itiha wall unit is ₹7,999 including taxes, with mounting hardware and "free installation" listed. Its drawers and back panels are engineered wood, and the page recommends a brick or concrete wall (Wooden Street).
Mid: Asian Paints gives ₹1,200 to ₹2,500 per sq ft for wooden carpentry and carpenter charges of ₹300 to ₹500 per sq ft, without saying whether the first includes the second, so labour has its own line (Asian Paints Beautiful Homes). Spacewood prices MDF CNC jaali at ₹200 to ₹350 per sq ft before lamination or paint (Spacewood).
Premium: a Chennai seller on IndiaMART lists a Corian pooja unit up to 600 x 600 x 300 mm at ₹60,000 a piece, and another lists a wall-mounted Corian mandir at ₹65,000 (IndiaMART). Neither states tax or fitting, so both are added.

Floor-standing pooja unit in the living room

The example is about 760 mm wide, 1,830 mm tall and 450 mm deep, or 15 sq ft of front.

Line	Budget	Mid	Premium
Unit	Ready-made engineered wood with LED jaali, 24 x 14 x 57 in: ₹14,999	Ply and laminate, 15 sq ft at ₹1,850: ₹27,750	Makrana marble mandir, 5 ft: ₹1,20,000
Carpenter labour	Included	15 sq ft at ₹400: ₹6,000	None
Installation	Included	With labour	₹8,000
Marble top, 760 x 450, moulded edge	None	₹1,400	Part of the mandir
MDF CNC jaali, 7.5 sq ft at ₹275	Built in	₹2,060	None
PU polish on jaali, 7.5 sq ft at ₹190	None	₹1,425	None
Lighting	Built-in LED	LED strip: ₹510	Two downlights: ₹508
Electrical points	Uses a socket	One: ₹1,250	Two: ₹3,000
Brass bell	₹140	₹350	₹1,250
GST at 18% on contractor lines	In price	₹6,927	₹1,980
Total	₹15,139	₹47,672	₹1,34,738

Budget: Wooden Street's Vidyut unit is ₹14,999 including taxes, with an LED behind an acrylic jaali that plugs into a nearby socket (Wooden Street).
Mid: for comparison, Wooden Street's ready-made Daivik unit in sheesham with a marble base, 30 x 17.2 x 72 in, is ₹58,999 including taxes and assembly (Wooden Street).
Premium: 4 to 6 ft marble mandirs on IndiaMART run from ₹50,000 to ₹4,99,999 a piece, with most between about ₹97,000 and ₹2.85 lakh; three 5 ft listings from Makrana and Jaipur show ₹1,00,000, ₹1,20,000 and ₹1,80,000 (IndiaMART). Freight and the mandir's own GST are not in our total: ask for both.

Small pooja room cost: a 4 x 5 ft room with a door

The full build, as drawn below. The floor is assumed finished with the flat.

Three drawings of a small pooja room with an internal size of 1,220 by 1,525 mm (4 by 5 ft). Plan: 115 mm walls, a cabinet with a marble ledge 450 mm deep along the back wall, a clear floor 1,220 by 1,075 mm, two downlights, and a 760 mm door opening outward with a jaali vent above it. Elevation A, the back wall: a cabinet with drawers and shutters, a marble ledge with its top at 900 mm, a back-lit panel 900 by 900 mm from 1,000 to 1,900 mm, marble cladding to 2,135 mm, a brass bell hanging at the side, and a false ceiling at 2,600 mm with two downlights. Elevation B, the front wall from outside: a door 760 by 2,135 mm, a jaali vent 760 by 450 mm above it, switches beside the door and the slab at about 2,900 mm. — The 4 by 5 ft room priced in this post: what the door, cladding, ledge, back-lit panel, jaali, ceiling, lights and bell cover. Sizes are MOA's worked example. Diagram: MOA

Line	Budget	Mid	Premium
Door, 760 x 2,135 mm	PVC: ₹2,500	CNC panel with toughened glass: ₹25,000	Wood with artistic glass: ₹75,000
Marble cladding to 7 ft (CPWD)	8 mm tile, back wall, 28 sq ft: ₹7,200	8 mm tile, three walls, 98 sq ft: ₹25,200	18 mm Italian marble, 98 sq ft: ₹94,800
Marble ledge, 1,220 x 450, moulded edge (CPWD)	₹2,050	₹2,050	₹2,050
Cabinet under the ledge, 10 sq ft	At ₹1,200: ₹12,000	At ₹1,850: ₹18,500	At ₹2,500: ₹25,000
Carpenter labour, 10 sq ft	₹3,000	₹4,000	₹5,000
Back-lit panel, 900 x 900 mm (9 sq ft)	Acrylic at ₹350: ₹3,150	Corian at ₹1,200: ₹10,800	Corian at ₹2,500: ₹22,500
LED strip behind the panel, 5 m	₹510	₹510	₹510
Jaali vent over the door, 4 sq ft	MDF: ₹800	HDHMR: ₹1,600	Solid wood: ₹6,000
False ceiling, 20 sq ft	Gypsum: ₹1,560	Gypsum: ₹1,560	Wood finish: ₹10,000
Downlights	One: ₹254	Two: ₹508	Two: ₹508
Electrical points	Two at ₹1,000: ₹2,000	Three at ₹1,250: ₹3,750	Four at ₹1,500: ₹6,000
Brass bell	₹140	₹350	₹1,250
Polish	Melamine on jaali: ₹360	PU on jaali: ₹760	PU on jaali and cabinet: ₹2,940
GST at 18% on contractor lines	₹4,567	₹11,875	₹27,439
Total	₹40,091	₹1,06,463	₹2,78,997

Where each line comes from

Door. PVC pooja doors on IndiaMART mostly sit between ₹1,500 and ₹4,000, with ₹2,500 the most common price, including a 600 x 2050 mm door (IndiaMART). NoBroker gives ₹18,000 to ₹32,000 for a CNC-cut panel with 8 mm toughened glass behind it, and ₹32,000 to ₹75,000 for a wooden door with artistic glass (NoBroker Interiors). Neither says whether frame, fitting or GST is included.
Marble. CPWD's DSR 2023 prices 8 mm marble tile on a wall with adhesive at ₹2,766.45 per sq m (item 7.38.1.2), 18 mm Italian marble wall lining at ₹10,414.80 (8.11.1), an 18 mm marble counter over 0.5 sq m at ₹3,078.40 (8.2.1.2) and edge moulding at ₹298.60 per metre (8.3.1). We converted at 10.76 sq ft per sq m.
Back-lit panel and jaali. Spacewood's rates for acrylic (₹350 to ₹700), HDHMR (₹300 to ₹500) and solid wood (₹700 to ₹1,500 and up) per sq ft. Corian mandir work on IndiaMART is mostly ₹900 to ₹2,500 per sq ft, and one Delhi seller's back-lit Corian mandir is listed at ₹1,200.
Ceiling. Design Cafe's September 2026 guide gives ₹78 per sq ft for gypsum and ₹500 to ₹1,200 for wood, and says lighting is usually extra (Design Cafe). On 20 sq ft, expect a minimum charge (our guidance).
Lights and points. Philips lists its 5 m, 25 W warm white Cove Glow strip at ₹509.90 and its StarFit downlight at ₹254, both including taxes (Philips, Philips). For a concealed light point with wire, switch, labour and a 15% margin, InfraLens computes about ₹930 to ₹1,570 by city, as a market range rather than a schedule of rates (InfraLens).
Bell and polish. Small brass bells on IndiaMART are mostly ₹140 to ₹350, and temple bells ₹1,200 to ₹1,250 (IndiaMART). A NoBroker forum answer from June 2026 gives ₹80 to ₹100 per sq ft for melamine and ₹165 to ₹210 for PU (NoBroker forum).

Three 100 per cent stacked bars showing where the money goes in a 4 by 5 ft pooja room, including GST. Budget, total 40,091 rupees: door 6 per cent, marble cladding and ledge 23, cabinet and carpenter labour 37, back-lit panel, LED strip and jaali 11, false ceiling, lights and points 10, bell and polish 1, GST 11. Mid, total 1.06 lakh: door 23, cladding 26, cabinet 21, panel 12, ceiling and lights 5, bell and polish 1, GST 11. Premium, total 2.79 lakh: door 27, cladding 35, cabinet 11, panel 10, ceiling and lights 6, bell and polish 2, GST 10. — Door, marble and the cabinet carry most of a pooja room budget; lights, points and the bell are small lines. Illustrative shares from this post's worked examples. Diagram: MOA

The split shows where to look first: in a budget room the cabinet is the biggest line, while in a premium room the door and the marble are about 60% of the total.

Marble, Corian or wood: marble pooja room cost per sq ft

Chart of published rates per sq ft for pooja room materials. CPWD Delhi Schedule of Rates 2023, including labour and GST: 8 mm marble tile on a wall with adhesive 257 rupees, in mortar 296, 18 mm marble ledge or counter 317, 18 mm Raj Nagar marble wall lining 534 with cramps extra, 18 mm Italian marble wall lining 968. Corian mandir work on IndiaMART mostly 900 to 2,500, median about 1,200. Ply and laminate unit per sq ft of front 1,200 to 2,500 (Asian Paints Beautiful Homes). Jaali panels: MDF 200 to 350, acrylic 350 to 700, solid wood 700 to 1,500 and up (Spacewood), marble 850 to 2,800 (Design Cafe). — Per sq ft, CPWD's marble wall lining costs less than most Corian work listed on IndiaMART, and MDF jaali costs a fraction of marble jaali. Rates read 22 Oct 2026. Diagram: MOA

Marble. Per sq ft of wall, CPWD's rates run from about ₹257 for 8 mm tile to ₹968 for 18 mm Italian slab, labour and GST included. 18 mm Raj Nagar veneer on cramps is ₹534 plus the cramps. These are Delhi rates based on April 2023 prices, so a 2026 quote in your city will differ; use them as a benchmark (our guidance). Our natural stone guide compares Makrana and other marbles.
Corian mandir price. Mostly ₹900 to ₹2,500 per sq ft on IndiaMART, with a median near ₹1,200, and ₹19,000 to ₹69,000 for most units sold by the piece. Ask what the square foot is measured on.
Wooden pooja room design with price. Ply and laminate at ₹1,200 to ₹2,500 per sq ft of front; Asian Paints says solid teak or mahogany climbs past ₹3,000.
Mandir jali design price. Design Cafe gives ₹90 to ₹450 per sq ft for laser-cut MDF and ₹850 to ₹2,800 for marble (Design Cafe).

Pooja room design low price: where to save

Buy a ready-made unit with installation included instead of building one.
Clad only the back wall, in 8 mm marble tile, and paint the sides.
Choose laminate over veneer: no polish line.
Use a plug-in LED unit and an existing socket, which saves a new point.
Skip the false ceiling in a pooja room under 25 sq ft and light it from the room outside (our guidance).

For how pooja carpentry sits in a whole-home budget, see our room-by-room interior design cost guide or MOA's free home cost calculator.

Pooja room quotation checklist

Every line named with its quantity and unit: sq ft of front, sq ft of cladding, number of points.
Board and finish: plywood grade, laminate or veneer, and the polish (melamine or PU).
Stone: type, thickness (8 mm tile or 18 mm slab), finish and whether fixing, cramps and edge moulding are in.
Corian or acrylic: brand, thickness and whether the back-lit cavity, LED and driver are included.
Door: shutter material, glass thickness, frame, hardware and fitting.
Electrical: number of points, wire size, switch brand and who supplies the lights.
Installation, transport and debris removal as separate lines.
GST: whether each rate includes it, the rate charged and the HSN or SAC code.

FAQ

What is the pooja room interior design cost in India?

About ₹40,000 to ₹2.8 lakh for a fitted 4 x 5 ft room on our worked examples, including GST. A unit alone costs far less.

What is the pooja unit price for a flat?

Ready-made wall units start near ₹8,000 including taxes; our custom laminate unit is about ₹19,000 and a Corian one about ₹84,000.

What is the marble mandir price?

Most 4 to 6 ft marble mandirs on IndiaMART are listed at ₹97,000 to ₹2.85 lakh, before freight and fitting. Marble cladding costs about ₹257 to ₹968 per sq ft at CPWD rates.

What is the Corian mandir design price?

Mostly ₹900 to ₹2,500 per sq ft, or ₹19,000 to ₹69,000 for most units priced by the piece, on IndiaMART listings read 22 Oct 2026.

Is GST extra on pooja room work?

Often. Supply-and-fit work attracts 18% as a works contract; prices marked "inclusive of all taxes" already have it.

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

Sources

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