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Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is a temple complex in Bhuj, Kutch district, Gujarat,India, which is managed by Nar Narayan Dev Gadi of the Swaminarayan Sampraday, a sect of Hinduism. The inauguration ceremony of the temple held from 15 to 23 May 2010.
Bhuj Swaminarayan Temple Logo The temple, part destroyed by the earthquake Main gate of the temple. This mandir comes under the Narnarayan Dev Gadi. Senior devotees Gangarambhai jethi Sundarjibhai, Jigneshwarbhai and others from the Bhuj region of Kutch went to Gadhada where God Swaminarayan was attending a Fuldol festival. In that festival ...
The temple originally stood on the banks of a reservoir 18.5 long and 7.5 miles wide. [73] This reservoir was formed through construction of 3 earth-and-stone dams during Bhoja's reign. The first dam, built on Betwa River , trapped the river waters in a depression surrounded by hills.
In the 1920s, members of the sect began to move out of India to East Africa in search of work and better lives. Among these was a large number of Kutchis of the Leva Patel/Patidar community, who remained to the Bhuj temple under the Nar Nararayan Dev Gadi. [29] All the temples built in Africa come under the temple in Bhuj.
The village is located about 105 km from Bhuj, the headquarters of Kutch district. [2] [3] Mata no Madh is a village in Bhuj it is far away from Bhuj station and is a sacred temple of Maa Ashapura well known for its structure and environment
The temple pujari came with the main murti during the Bengal violence during partition via a special chartered plane. While in Dhaka Bangladesh a replica is placed in the Temple. The main gem of Goddess Sati is lost long before (the factual date is unknown).
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.
Ashapura Mataji's temple is in the Gadhkada village in Amreli district. Every 1st day of Navratri, lot of people come there for Mataji's Yagna. In Rajasthan, her temples are in Pokhran, Modran, Morseem and Nadol. In Mumbai also there is a famous temple of Ashapura Mata. Murti of the Devi in Bannerghatta, Bangalore.