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The record was presented for Akshardham as the World's Largest Comprehensive Hindu Temple at that time (certificate). [60] [61] The certificate states, "BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham in New Delhi, India, is the world's largest comprehensive Hindu temple.
Head toward it, and you arrive at the largest Hindu temple in the U.S. and among the largest in the world. The BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham temple at 112 N. Main St. – open Wednesdays through ...
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]
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 Swaminarayan temple in Karachi, Pakistan, was built in 1868 when Karachi was part of the Indian Union. [32] After the Second World War, members of the movement in East Africa began migrating to the United Kingdom; the number of migrants rose significantly in the 1960s and 1970s. [33]
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.
This is a list of major Hindu temples in India, by state.. This is a dynamic list. For example, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (self-described as "the world's richest temple trust") has an ongoing campaign to build a replica of the iconic Lord Venkateswara Swamy temple in Tirupati in every Indian state and union territory that does not yet have one.