Largest Hindu Temple Complex in the World - Guinness World Record Committee.
Some Amazing Facts About The Temple
It is one of the biggest and most intricate religious places of worship ever constructed
The Akshardham monument, built without steel, is entirely composed of sandstone and marble
It consists of 234 ornately carved pillars, 9 ornate domes, 20 quadrangled shikhars, a spectacular Gajendra Pith (plinth of stone elephants) and 20,000 murtis and statues of India's great sadhus, devotees, acharyas and divine personalities
The monument was built after over 300 million man hours of services rendered by 11,000 volunteers, sadhus and artisans
The ornate external wall (Mandovar) is the only and largest, intricately carved structure with dimensions of 611ft x 31ft that is built in the last 800 years
The Gajendra Pith stretching for 1,070 ft and weighing 3,000 tons, has 148 full-sized elephants, 42 birds and animals, 125 human sculptures!
The Akshardham parikrama (circumambulatory path) consists of 1,152 pillars, 145 windows and 154 samvaran shikhars; amounting to a total of 53,956 stones.
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