It was built by a Nagpur millionaire a devotee of Baba, Bapu Saheb Buti, and was called Buti Wada. Sai Baba's body was interred in the site reserved by buti to build a Krishna temple and Baba's samadhi has come up here. The samadhi has been built with white marble stone. In front there are two padhukas of Baba and the brick which was broken led to Baba predicting his death, is kept near the samadhi.

Just behind the samadhi is Baba's statue. It shows him seated on a throne with his right leg thrown on the left in the familiar posture which thousands of his devotees all the over the country know and worship.

This statue was made by late Balaji Vasant alias Babu Saheb Talim who made it out of sheer sense of gratitude. The idol statue was installed on October 7, 1954 by swami Sai Sharanand, an ardent devotee from Ahmedabad.

Above the statue on the wall is engraved this couplet:

"Raghupati raghava rajaram
Patita pawan Sainam"

On the high ceiling behind the statue is also this inscription:

Sachidananda Sat Guru
Sai Maharaj Ki Jai.

Dwaraka Mayi

Not far from the mandir is Dwaraka Mayi or the masjid where Baba stayed all his life after he came toShirdi. it was then a dilapidated mosque which was unused and it was in such an deteriorating condition that parts of it were crumbling all the time. Baba called it Dwaraka Mayi (he also called it once a" a Brahmin mosque") to respect Hindu sentiment. As one enters Dwaraka Mayi one notices on the left the Dhuni, which Baba created, from the moment he settled in the mosque and which still burns as it did throughout his lifetime.

it was by the side of the Dhuni that Baba sat and received devotees and visitors to mark the spot a portrait of Baba has been installed on the side of the wall. in the front above the steps are two pillars where Baba used to stand in the evenings and greet passersby and talk to them. in one corner on the right is a large stone on which Baba sat while taking a bath. Further inside on the right of the extreme corner is the grinding stone, which Baba used for grinding wheat into flour, and by its side is kept a closed rack with stored wheat.

on the opposite side, on the left, is preserved the mud pot in which Baba kept the alms he got daily and placed it outside the mosque to enable crows, dogs and beggars to share the food with him. a big open shed has been put up in front of Dwaraka Mayi to serve as a prayer hall and place of meditation. here opposite to Dwaraka Mayi there is another picture of Baba and below it is the famous stone on which Baba sat in contemplation. The picture of Baba in this posture is the one seen in the homes of thousands of devotees.

A short distance, from Dwaraka Mayi is the chavadi, another landmark of Shirdi. Baba slept in the chavadi on alternate nights. he was taken in procession there and there was an elaborate ceremony before Baba retired for the night. it is a very small building, actually a hall 20 feet by 15 feet with a partition which served as Baba's bedroom. in the bedroom there is a picture of Baba and a notice warns women from entering it. In the hall on one side there is a cot on which Baba's body was placed for a sacred bath after his passing away. On the other side is a chair mounted with wheels. an inscription says it has been there since Baba's time but it does not say if Baba ever used it. in chavadi Baba used in participate in bhajans in his early days,singing and dancing.

In between Dwaraka Mayi and the chavadi is the maruthi shrine where Baba used to stand for a minute or two making mysterious signs on his way to the chavadi.

This is the temple where Baba was refused shelter by mhalsapathi, Its priest, on the ground that Baba was a Muslim. it was then that Baba decided to make the dilapidated mosque his home.

another landmark which has been preserved is the Neem tree under which Baba sat when he first came toShirdi in the latter half of the 19th century, as a lad of 16. a mandap has been built round the tree and it is called Gurusthan.the tree's sacredness is exemplified in this prayer. "i bow down to the lord sad guru Sainath who by his constant abode at the foot of the margossa treee, whose juice though by natureis bitter and distasteful has turned ti nectar-like sweet because he has exalted the tree above the legendary kalpavriksh.