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The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Robbinsville, New Jersey) is a slightly older, smaller mandir on the Akshardham campus, built between 2010 and 2014. The mandir was built in the Nagaradi style using 68,000 cubic feet (1,900 m 3) of Italian Carrara marble. The structure is 87 feet (27 m) wide, 133 feet (41 m) long, and 42 feet (13 m) high. [51]
Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, known as BAPS, is a sect of Hinduism that follows the teachings of Bhagwan Swaminarayan, a Hindu leader born in the 18th century.It was ...
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Robbinsville, New Jersey) in Central 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 .
Murtis of Laxmi Narayan with Ranchhodrai at Vadtal Radha Krishna Dev with Harikrishna Maharaj at Vadtal. As an adjunct to the scriptures in establishing ultimate redemption and consolidating the framework of the holy fellowship (Satsang), Swaminarayan constructed stone mandirs, buttressing Upasana – worshipping God, and devotion towards the deities.
The Sri Venkateswara Temple, Pittsburgh, inaugurated on June 8, 1977, and the Hindu Temple Society of North America in New York, consecrated on July 4, 1977, became the first Hindu temples in the U.S. built by Indian immigrants. In the 1980s and 1990s, temples were built in nearly all major metropolitan areas.
The Swaminarayan Mandir in Weehawken, New Jersey is the first Swaminarayan temple of the Narnarayan Gadi in the United States. [1] It is the national headquarters of the ISSO and comes under the NarNarayan Dev Gadi of the Swaminarayan Sampraday. [2] Today there are four Swaminarayan temples in New Jersey alone. [3]
The image of Nar Narayan is a replica of that installed by Swaminarayan at the world's first Swaminarayan temple in Ahmedabad. [1] [2] It was the eighth Swaminarayan temple to be built in the USA. There are twenty temples in the US as of 2009. [2] [3]
The newly built mandir was situated on a five-acre plot, consisting of an 8,000 square foot assembly hall. [12] The mandir was located on Brand Lane and was inaugurated in 1988 by Pramkuh Swami. In the late 1990s, the congregation began planning the development of a new Shikarbaddha mandir that would be situated in next to the current mandir.