Swaminarayan Akshardham Temple:s name was included in the Guinness Book of World Records in the year 2005 for being the world s largest Hindu temple complex. It is one the most biggest and beautiful temples of the world. The amazing lemple situated in Delhi. India, is built with a combination of marb stone, sand stone and wood. Find out more interesting thing things about this temple in the story.
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 buill ln such way so that it lasls for ar 1,000 ycars.
The ornate external wall
In the last 800 years, this is the only and largest intricately carved wall in India with dimensions 611 x 31 il comprises 200 sculpturcd stonc figurcs of India s rishis, sadhus, devotees, acharyas and divine incarnations.
Thiis temple consists of 231 ornately carved pillars, 9 ornate domcs, Gajcndra 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 ol 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 arc 108 gaumukh herc from which you can hear soothing sound of water While moving in the parikrama.
The magnificent beauty of the temple at night is worth seeing. This huge temple was built in 5 years. It receives 100,000 visitors a week and around 850 volunteers work here daily.
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