Swaminarayan Temple, Akshardham is one the most biggest and beautiful
temples of the world. The amazing temple situated in Delhi, India, is built
with a combination of marble stone, sand stone and wood. The temple is spread
over ground covering 83,342 sq feet. It is 356 feet long, 316 feet wide and 141
feet high.
The Akshardham temple is built in such way so that it lasts for another
1,000 years.
The ornate external wall
In the last 800 years, this
is the only and largest intricately carved wall in India with dimensions 611 ft
x 31 ft. it comprises 200 sculptured stone figures of India’s rishis, sadhus,
devotees, acharyas and divine incarnations.
This temple consists of 234
ornately carved pillars, 9 ornate domes, Gajendra Pith and 20,000 statues of
India’s divine figures.
The Gajendra Pith weighs 3,000 tons, has 148 full-sized elephants, 42
birds and animals, 125 human sculptures and decorative stone backdrops of
trees, creepers and royal palaces
This is Parikrama made of red
stones from Rajasthan, consisting 1,152 pillars and 145 windows. It surrounds
the temple like a beautiful garland.
There are 108 gaumukh here
from which you can hear soothing sound of water while moving in the parikrama.
This is the garden designed in the lotus way. Every petal of this flower
inspires with the messages from internationally renowned personages about faith
in God
Yagnapurush Kund
It is a fascinating
combination of a Vedic yagna kund and a musical fountain. It is the world’s
largest yagna kund measuring 300’ x 300’ with 2,870 steps and 108 small shrines
At night the temple comes to life with colourful musical fountain that
echoes the Vedic sentiments of India
In the inner sanctum lies the 11 feet high beautiful statue of Lord
Swaminarayan and other statues of Aksharbrahma, Yogiji Maharaj among others
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