In spite of the fact that Theur is accepted to a Ganapatya (group which considers Ganesha as the Supreme Being) journey focus since old occasions, the current sanctuary was worked by the Ganapatya holy person Morya Gosavi or his relative Dharmadhar (Dharanidhar). The specific date of the sanctuary is obscure. 

Morya Gosavi regularly visited the sanctuary on his outings between his old neighborhood Chinchwad and Morgaon, the principal of the Ashtavinayaka sanctuaries. On each fourth lunar day after the full moon, Morya used to visit the Theur sanctuary. As per a story, according to his master's requests, Morya performed retribution at Theur by watching a severe quick for 42 days, inside this period, he is accepted to have "divine disclosures". Ganesha is accepted to have showed up as a tiger to Morya and conceded him siddhi (profound forces). 

The Theur sanctuary alongside other Ganapatya focuses close Pune, appreciated illustrious support from the Brahmin Peshwa leaders of the Maratha Empire during the eighteenth century. The Peshwas, who adored Ganesha as their kuladaivat ("family god"), gave in land or potentially money as well as made increases to these Ganesha sanctuaries, particularly Theur and Morgaon. The Theur sanctuary has been an otherworldly magnet of the Peshwas, particularly Madhavrao I. Madhavrao, who additionally redesigned the sanctuary, used to visit before participating in any fight and after a fight to thank for the accomplishment in fight. Madhavrao likewise spent in his last days in the regions of the sanctuary. In the time of extraordinary ailment that prompted his demise, Madhavrao attempted to satisfy the Lord by performing him a lasting abhisheka of milk. Chimaji Appa, sibling and military officer of the Peshwa Baji Rao I, given an enormous European ringer, which actually hangs in the sanctuary. He had obtained it as war goods from the Portuguese in the wake of holding onto the Vasai Fort. 

At present, the sanctuary is under the organization of the Chinchwad Devasthan Trust, which likewise administers Morgaon and Siddhatek Ashtavinayak sanctuaries.