BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Hindu temple in London (Neasden Temple)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (known as the Neasden Temple) is a Hindu temple in Neasden, London. This Hindu temple was built entirely using traditional methods and materials, the BAAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir has been described as being Britain's first authentic Hindu temple. It was also Europe's first traditional Hindu temple in stone, as distinct from converted secular buildings. It is a part of the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) organisation and was inaugurated in 1995 by Pramukh Swami Maharaj.
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir was cited in Guinness World Records 2000, as follows:
“Biggest Hindu Temple outside India: The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Neasden, London, UK, is the largest Hindu temple outside India. It was built by Pramukh Swami, a 92-year-old Indian sadhu (holy man), and is made of 2,828 tonnes of Bulgarian limestone and 2,000 tonnes of Italian marble, which was first shipped to India to be carved by a team of 1,526 sculptors. The temple cost £12 million to build."
However, since 2000 it has been surpassed in size by other BAPS Hindu temples elsewhere. The mandir was built and funded entirely by the Hindu community. The entire project spanned five years although the Mandir construction itself was completed in two-and-a-half years. Building work began in August 1992. In November 1992, the temple recorded the largest concrete-pour in the UK, when 4,500 tons were put down in 24 hours to create a foundation mat 6 ft (1.8m) thick. The first stone was laid in June 1993; two years later, the building was complete.
The temple complex consists of:
a traditional Hindu temple (mandir), constructed mainly from hand-carved Italian Carrara marble and Bulgarian limestone. The temple is the focal point of the complex;
a permanent exhibition entitled "Understanding Hinduism"; and
a cultural centre, known as the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Haveli, designed in traditional Gujarati haveli architecture, housing an assembly hall, gymnasium, bookshop, and offices.
June 1970: The first BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir in the UK was opened in a converted disused church in Islington, North London, by Yogiji Maharaj
1982: Having outgrown the temple, the congregation moved from the Islington temple to a small, former warehouse in Neasden.
1990: BAPS was again in search of a building that could cope with the growing congregation, and plans for the present temple were made.
1995: They moved to their present temple, built on the site of a disused truck warehouse opposite the previous temple. The old temple building was retained and converted into Shayona, an Indian grocery shop and vegetarian restaurant.
The Mandir and Haveli were built and funded entirely by the Hindu community, and the entire project spanned five years, although the construction itself was completed in two-and-a-half years. Building work began in August 1992. On 24 November 1992, the temple recorded the biggest-ever concrete-pour in the UK, when 4,500 tons were laid in 24 hours to create a foundation mat 6 ft (1.8m) thick. The first stone was laid in June 1993; two years later, the building was complete.
The Mandir
The mandir is the focal point of the complex. Designed according to the Shilpa-Shastras, a Vedic text that develops Hindu architecture to metaphorically represent the different attributes of God, it was constructed almost entirely from Indian marble, Italian marble, Sardinian granite and Bulgarian limestone. No iron or steel was used in the construction, a unique feature for a modern building in the UK.
From the conceptual design and vision of Pramukh Swami, the architect C. B. Sompura and his team only used stone for its construction. It is a shikharbaddha mandir: seven tiered pinnacles topped by golden spires crowd the roofline, complemented by five ribbed domes. The temple is noted for its profusely carved cantilevered central dome, believed to be the only one in Britain that does not use steel or lead. Inside, serpentine ribbons of stone link the columns into arches, creating a sense of levitation.
Light cream Vartza limestone from Bulgaria was chosen for the exterior, and for the interior, Italian Carrara marble supplemented by Indian Ambaji marble. The Bulgarian and Italian stone were shipped to the port of Kandla, Gujarat, where most of the carving was eventually completed by over 1,500 craftsmen in a workshop specially set up for the project. More than 26,300 individually numbered stone pieces were shipped back to London, and the building was assembled like a giant three-dimensional jigsaw.
The mandir was inaugurated on 20 August 1995 by Pramukh Swami Maharaj, the spiritual leader of BAPS, the organisation behind the temple.
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Very beautiful temple
yes, incredible place and in #London!
Que pasada de sitio!!
Increible tener esta jolla en #Londres
Nice
thanks
Jai bhagwaan swaminarayan ji ki
I don't understand, sorry
Thank you for sharing this video - the temple is so beautiful 🙂
Welcome. The temple is absolutely mazing!!
This temple is similar to our Tripura's ujjayanta palace
I never been there, but looks nice too
Mukt me kisi ko khila bhi do kabhi ..god khush hoga ..
मुझे नहीं पता कि आपका क्या मतलब है, मुझे भगवान पर विश्वास नहीं है, मैं सिर्फ इस शानदार मंदिर को देखने गया था
Waha muft me khaana bat ta hai.
Jab kuch pata na ho to muh se haga mat kar.
Better don't comment if you don't know.
This temple in London had served the PPL during times of COVID
And also had did many charitable works