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The BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham temple at 112 N. Main St. – open Wednesdays through Mondays, 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., free admission – rises 19 stories above the ground and sprawls over 180 acres ...
Swaminarayan Akshardham is a Hindu temple and spiritual-cultural campus in Delhi, India.The temple is close to the border with Noida.Also referred to as Akshardham Temple or Akshardham Delhi, the complex displays millennia of traditional and modern Hindu culture, spirituality, and architecture.
Connaught Place, also known as CP, is a business and commercial centre with hotels, shopping complexes, and offices.Tourist attractions include Hanuman Mandir, an ancient temple with a mention in Guinness Book of Record, Jantar Mantar, an astronomical observatory from the 18th century, Maharaja Agrasen ki Baoli and State Emporiums which houses a collection of ethnic specialities of the states.
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 ...
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.
A series of TikTok videos showing tourists reenacting a video game run through a 900-year-old Cambodian temple complex has some conservationists and historians up in arms.
“Swaminarayan Akshardham” refers both to the entire temple complex/campus as well as the to the eponymous “Akshardham Mahamandir” (see section 2). The Mahamandir and campus also share a name in Swaminarayan Akshardham (Gandhinagar) and Swaminarayan Akshardham (New Delhi).