BAPS Hindu Mandir Abu Dhabi gets 350K visitors, devotees within first month of opening

BAPS Hindu Mandir Abu Dhabi, which was inaugurated with nice ceremony on February 14 by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has acquired greater than 350,000 guests and devotees within the first month of its opening, in response to the temple authorities.

The iconic BAPS temple, the first of its sort and scale within the Middle East, was totally opened for guests on March 1. “In the first month, there have been roughly 350,000 devotees and guests, 50,000 of whom visited every weekend (Saturday-Sunday). It’s necessary to notice that on Mondays, the Mandir conducts personal prayers and is closed to guests, that means the complicated was accessible for less than 27 out of the 31 days in March,” mentioned a temple spokesperson, talking to the Press Trust of India on April 3.

“Every night from Tuesday to Sunday, Ganga Aarti is carried out at 7.30pm on the banks of the Swaminarayan ghat, which has been created [at the temple] utilizing holy water from Ganga and Yamuna, transported from India,” he added.

The grand temple was inaugurated throughout a dedication ceremony attended by over 5,000 invitees on February 14. The temple has been constructed by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha on a 27-acre website in Abu Mureikhah, close to Al Rahba off the Dubai-Abu Dhabi Sheikh Zayed Highway, at a price of round INR 700 crore (USD 83.8 million).

Constructed with sandstone sourced immediately from Rajasthan, in western India, the Hindu Mandir in Abu Dhabi has been made within the Nagara type of structure, identical to the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, which was inaugurated earlier this yr.

BAPS Hindu Mandir is the most important within the Gulf area. The UAE has three different Hindu temples, positioned in Dubai.

“Since the temple is [a] little on the outskirts and within the center of a desert, public bus service from town has been began for weekends to permit guests to simply come to the temple,” the spokesperson mentioned.

During PM Modi’s two-day go to to the Gulf nation in 2015, the UAE allotted land for setting up a temple in Abu Dhabi. This go to held vital diplomatic significance, as Modi grew to become the first Indian prime minister since Indira Gandhi to go to this strategically very important Gulf nation in 34 years.

Seven spires representing seven emirates of the UAE; carvings of camels, aka the “ships of the desert”; and the UAE’s nationwide fowl falcon are half of the structure of the first Hindu stone temple in Abu Dhabi, to provide equal illustration to the host nation. Alongside are animals that occupy an necessary place in Indian mythology, equivalent to elephants and lions.

Apart from 15 tales from India, together with the Ramayan and Mahabharat, tales from Mayan, Aztec, Egyptian, Arabic, European, Chinese, and African civilisations have additionally been depicted within the temple.

While the outer partitions of the temple are made utilizing sandstone from India, the inside, made of white Italian marble, is adorned with intricately designed and carved columns and partitions.