Curated By: Aditi Ray Chowdhury
Last Updated: February 12, 2024, 20:44 IST
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
The consecration ceremony of the temple is scheduled for 14 February 2024 because it falls on the auspicious Basant Panchami.
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The huge advanced will embrace a big amphi-theatre, a gallery, a library, a meals courtroom, a majlis and two neighborhood halls with house for five,000 individuals. It may even have gardens and youngsters’s play areas
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the BAPS Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi, the primary Hindu stone temple within the UAE on February 14, in accordance with an official press launch from BAPS Hindu Mandir. The inside visuals of the mandir was launched on Monday.
The temple is constructed on a 27-acre piece of land in Abu Mureikhah district and forward of the grand opening, non secular chief of BAPS Swami Mahant Swami Maharaj has arrived within the UAE.
#WATCH | Inside visuals of the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) Mandir, the primary Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi. It might be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 14. pic.twitter.com/8oOt7Sh6gh— ANI (@ANI) February 12, 2024
The huge advanced will embrace a big amphi-theatre, a gallery, a library, a meals courtroom, a majlis and two neighborhood halls with house for five,000 individuals. It may even have gardens and youngsters’s play areas.
It will incorporate intricately designed pink sandstone and marble façade with seven spires that characterize every of the Emirates of the nation. The temple has been fabricated from 40,000 cubic metres of marble, 1,80,000 cubic metres of sandstone and over 1.8 million bricks.
The temple’s design attracts inspiration from Vedic structure and sculptures. Many of the statues and carvings have been achieved by artisans in India and have been shipped to Abu Dhabi. The consecration ceremony of the temple is scheduled for 14 February 2024 because it falls on the auspicious Basant Panchami.
All About the BAPS Organisation
BAPS stands for the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS). The organisation is called after Bhagwan Swaminarayan, a non secular chief who lived within the late 1700s.
It is a socio-spiritual Hindu religion with its roots within the vedas and was pioneered by Bhagwan Swaminarayan (1781-1830) within the late 18th century and established in 1907 by Shastriji Maharaj (1865-1951), in accordance with the BAPS web site.
The BAPS claims to run over 3,850 centres internationally and 1,100 temples. The organisation was additionally behind the Akshardham in Robbinsville, New Jersey, which can be the world’s largest Hindu temple exterior of India.
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