Sai Baba of Shirdi or Shirdi Sai Baba (c. September 27, 1838 - October 15, 1918), born under an unknown name, was an Indian guru and fakir. Sai Baba lived in a mosque, was buried in a Hindu temple. Saibaba of Shirdi lived an extremely simple and austere life, sleeping on the floor of temple and later taking a ruined mosque as his shelter. Shri Saibaba has millions of devotees in India and abroad. Shirdi, the obscure village in Maharashtra has become a pilgrimage destination much as Bethlehem, Jerusalem or Varanasi. This article is about the "Shirdi" Sai Baba, an Indian religious figure who lived sai-baba-shirdifrom the mid-19th to the early 20th century.
