- The Akshardham sanctuary in Delhi is spread north of 100 sections of land.
- The sanctuary will open for guests from October 18.
The BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham, found 90 m south of Times Square in New Jersey, will be officially introduced on October 8.
The 183-section of land sanctuary required almost 12 years to be assembled and its development required north of 12,500 workers from across the US.
Largest Hindu Temple in the US
Situated in New Jersey’s Robbinsville Municipality, the sanctuary is potentially the second biggest after Angkor Wat in Cambodia, a UNESCO World Legacy site spreading over 500 sections of land.
The Swaminarayan Akshardham sanctuary in the US has been planned according to the old Indian culture. There are more than 10,000 sculptures and carvings of Indian instruments and dance structures at the sanctuary.
Other than a principal holy place, the sanctuary has 12 sub-sanctums, nine shikhars (tower-like designs), and nine pyramidal shikhars. It likewise has the biggest curved vault of conventional stone engineering.
Almost 2,000,000 cubic feet of stone, including limestone, rock, pink sandstone, and marble, was utilized for its development. They were obtained from various regions of the planet, including India, Turkey, Greece, Italy, and China.
At the sanctuary, a conventional Indian stepwell called the ‘Brahma Kund’ has water from more than 300 water bodies across the world.
