Badrinath Dham is the most important of all the Char Dhams. It is located between the two mountains Nar and Narayan. Thousands of pilgrims come every year to this holy town to offer prayers and seek blessings and to get a glimpse of the famous temple of Shri Badrinathji.

This is the only shrine which is part of both Chota Char Dham and India Char Dham. Badrinath is one among four pilgrimage centres in the four corners of India. The four centres are Badrinath Temple in the north, Rameshwaram in the south, Dwarkapuri in the west and Jagannathpuri in the east.

The temple is also one of the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Lord Vishnu, who is worshipped as Badrinath. It is considered an extremely holy shrine for Vaishnavites. This temple is open for six months every year. It is open from the end of April to the beginning of November, and not otherwise because of extreme weather conditions in the Himalayan region.

This is an extremely significant temple and is mentioned in ancient religious texts like Vishnu Purana and Skanda Purana. The temple has also been mentioned in the Divya Prabandha, an early medieval Tamil canon of the Azhwar saints from the 6th–9th centuries AD.