These days, development work is going on at a very fast pace in Uttar Pradesh. While on one hand, preparations are being made in UP to build the country's largest airport, on the other hand, the country's largest meditation centre has also been inaugurated today by Prime Minister NarendraModi.
Inaugurated and visited the SwaravedaMahamandir in Varanasi. This temple is not small. You will be surprised to know that 20 thousand people can sit and meditate together in this temple. But the most important thing is that it took about 20 years to build this temple.
Now you too must be wondering what is there in this temple that it took so long to build. In today's article, we will give you all the special information about this temple to be built in Varanasi.
Special things about the temple
- When did the construction of the temple start- The construction work of the temple started in 2004.
- 4000 couplets related to Vedas are also written on the walls of this temple. Now you can understand how it took so many years to build.
- Great care has been taken in building the temple.
- This temple is a 7-storey building. On whose dome 125 lotuses have been made. The number of lotus-shaped petals visible in the middle of the temple is 125. SwarvedaMahamandir has been given the shape of a lotus flower.
- How big is the temple -The seven-storeySwaravedaMahamandir is spread over 68,000 square feet.
- This temple is dedicated to Swarveda.
- On the walls outside the temple, you will see paintings related to Ramayana, Geeta, Upanishads, Mahabharata, etc.
- Why was this temple built- Swarveda temple is called 'Vihangam Yoga'. That means it has been made for yoga practitioners.
- You can see pink sandstone decorations all around the walls of the temple.
- Outside the temple, at the bottom, you will see the statue of Rishi Muni, who is doing Sadhana. Along with this, you can also see a herd of elephants made of clay.
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