The Prahladpuri Temple is the most important Hindu site in Multan and, by tradition, one of the oldest temples in the entire subcontinent — said to mark the spot where the boy-prince Prahlad was protected from being burnt by his demoness aunt Holika, the founding myth of the Holi festival. The temple stood on the highest point of the Multan Fort mound, immediately next to the Shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya, the two buildings forming an unusually intimate Hindu–Muslim juxtaposition.
After Partition the temple fell into disuse, and on 7 December 1992 it was set on fire by a crowd retaliating for the demolition of the Babri Masjid in India; the roof and the inner sanctum were destroyed. Only the brick shell and a single battered tower survive today. There has been talk of restoration but nothing has happened; the site is overgrown and locked, but visible from outside the perimeter.