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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]
Swaminarayan Akshardham in Robbinsville, New Jersey, U.S., is the world's second-largest Hindu temple and the largest and most-visited Hindu temple outside Asia. [ 177 ] Sri Venkateswara Temple in Bridgewater , New Jersey , in a semi-rural setting, serves as the flagship for the Hindu Temple and Cultural Society of USA
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 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 ...
Apart from India, where the vast majority (1.12 billion) of the world's 1.3 billion [1] Hindu population lives, Hindu Temples are found across the world, on every continent. . In the Indian Subcontinent, thousands of modern and historic temples are spread across Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakist
The Kailasa temple (Cave 16) is the largest of the 34 Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain cave temples and monasteries known collectively as the Ellora Caves, ranging for over two kilometres (1.2 mi) along the sloping basalt cliff at the site. [5] Most of the excavation of the temple is generally attributed to the eighth century Rashtrakuta king Krishna ...
The Srirangam temple stands as the largest religious complex in the world in active worship with a continuous historical presence as a Hindu temple. [4] [6] Some of these structures have been renovated, expanded and rebuilt over the centuries as a living temple.
The temple compound, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the largest Hindu temple site in Indonesia and the second-largest in Southeast Asia after Angkor Wat. [1] It is characterized by its tall and pointed architecture, typical of Hindu architecture , and by the towering 47-metre-high (154 ft) central building inside a large complex of individual ...