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The Lainingthou Sanamahi Temple, Haying Khongban Uphong Yumpham (Lainingthou Sanamahi Laishang, Haying Khongban Uphong Yumpham) is a Meitei temple dedicated to God Lainingthou Sanamahi of Sanamahism (traditional Meitei religion) in Haying Khongban Uphong Yumpham, Imphal West district, Kangleipak. Its temple development board is the Lainingthou Sanamahi Temple Board (LSTB).

In 2018, the Sanamahi Temple organised the Sanamahi Cheng Hongba ritual, in which many devotees of God Sanamahi offered fruits, flowers and rice grains at the shrine of the deity to be blessed with peace, prosperity and fertility. On the same occasion, the "Sanamahi Laining Puya", a holy text was published by the Sanamahi Temple Board. During the same event, Langpoklakpam Jayantakumar Singh, the then Minister of the Art and Culture department of the Manipur, who was serving as the then president of the Lainingthou Sanamahi Temple Board, made an announcement of the then ongoing governmental efforts to enlist “Lai Haraoba” festival in the Intangible Heritage list of the UNESCO.