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It is the world's second-largest BAPS Hindu temple, following Akshardham, New Jersey, in the United States. The temple was officially opened on 6 November 2005 by Pramukh Swami Maharaj in the presence of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam , Manmohan Singh , L.K Advani and B.L Joshi .
The Akshardham was initiated by BAPS's fifth spiritual leader, Pramukh Swami Maharaj, and is one of the three Akshardham mandirs constructed by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha; the other two are in New Delhi and Gandhinagar. [3] [4] It is the largest Hindu mandir in the United States, and the second-largest in the world. [5] [a]
The campus' centerpiece is a larger temple, called the Akshardham, which measures almost 90,000 square feet, reaches 191 feet into the sky and was made from 1.9 million cubic feet of marble and ...
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Robbinsville, New Jersey is a Hindu shikharbaddha mandir that was built between 2010 and 2014. It is part of the Akshardham complex of the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, a denomination of the Swaminarayan branch of Hinduism.
The Shree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is a Hindu temple located in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the state of Kerala, India. It is widely considered as the world's richest Hindu temple. [61] The name of the city of 'Thiruvananthapuram' in Malayalam and Tamil translates to "The City of Ananta" (Ananta being a form of Vishnu). [62]
Akshardham may refer to: Akshardham (religion) or Akshar Purushottam Darshan, Purushottam's (Vishnu) eternal transcendental abode in the Swaminarayan sect of Hinduism Swaminarayan Akshardham (Delhi) , or Akshardham Temple, a Hindu temple complex in Delhi, India
Swaminarayan Akshardham in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India is a large Hindu temple complex inspired by Yogiji Maharaj (1892–1971) the fourth spiritual successor of Swaminarayan, and created by Pramukh Swami Maharaj (1921–2016), the fifth spiritual successor of Swaminarayan according to the BAPS denomination of Swaminarayan Hinduism.
The Akshardham metro station is a Delhi Metro station on the Blue Line operated by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited. The station lies between Pandav Nagar on one side and the Akshardham Mandir and the Commonwealth Games Village on the other. It was designed to be a complement of the Akshardham Mandir located nearby. [1]