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BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta : ウィキペディア英語版 | BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta is the sixth BAPS traditional Hindu stone temple built outside India. It is also the largest Hindu temple of its kind outside of India. It is currently open to the public. ==About The Temple== The temple, officially called the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, sits on . With hand-carved stone spires that tower , it is the tallest building in Lilburn, Georgia, dominating the intersection of Rockbridge Road and Lawrenceville Highway. More than 1,300 craftsmen and 900 volunteers dedicated their time in putting this 34,450-piece stone building together. More than 4,500 tons of Italian Carrara marble, 4,300 tons of Turkish limestone, and 3,500 tons of Indian pink sandstone was quarried and shipped to the craftsmen in India. Then, all of the nearly 35,000 pieces were shipped to the United States. It serves members of the Swaminarayan branch of Hinduism, which originated in India more than 200 years ago. The traditional design features custom-carved stonework, a wraparound veranda and five prominent pinnacles reminiscent of the Himalayan hills. The Lilburn location is the largest temple in North America for BAPS which was built at an estimated cost of $19 million, the temple complex (Atlanta based (Newport Design Group ) served as Lead Consulting Architects) is only the third of its kind in the country, surpassing BAPS temples in Houston and Chicago. It also surpassed the BAPS temple in Toronto, Canada to become the largest Hindu temple outside India.
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