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By Anuj Agrawal<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear Prabhus,<\/p>\n Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.<\/p>\n Below is an approximate translation of articles in Dainik Bhaskar (India’s leading Hindi Daily) on 3rd November regarding the Mayapur Project.<\/p>\n This is no stadium being constructed. 130 Km. from Kolkata. More than 500 skilled people are giving shape this building. This is the biggest temple in the world. When fully constructed, it will be higher than a 30-storey building. Currently, Combodia\u2019s Ankorwat centuries old world famous are considered the biggest temple in world in terms of size. They are spread in a compound of 820,000 square meter. In height Lord Ranganath\u2019s Temple at Srirangam, Tamil Nadu tops the list, whose main dome\u2019s height is around 250 feet. Turkey\u2019s Istanbul\u2019s 1500 years old Hazia Sofia was once a church, which was later converted to a mosque. But due to Islamic reforms about 100 years ago, Mutafa Kamal Pasha converted it into a museum. It is also about 200 feet high. Mayapur\u2019s Chandrodaya Temple will be taller that these. That means it will the biggest place of worship of any religion in the whole world. This will be completed by 2020.<\/p>\n The pinnacle of our faith: Chandrodaya When fully constructed, temple will have height equal to a 30-storey building Ford Donated Rs. 2.5 billion. Same amount from rest of the world This is the model of the temple A translated article in Dainik Bhaskar (India’s leading Hindi Daily) on 3rd November regarding the Mayapur Project. “The largest temple in the world, although constructed only one third it is visible from 10 Km.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe temple will be 300 feet high.
\nIt will be spread in 425,000 square meter.
\nTotal cost is Rupees 5 billion.
\nWill be ready by 2020.
\nWill have annually 2 million visitors.<\/p>\n
\nWork is progressing since 2.5 years in International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)\u2019s famous compound. 500 skilled people are working. Every activity is being filmed. Mayapur is an old settlement on banks of Ganges in Nadia District of Bengal. It is the birth place of Caitanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1534) Who is considered an incarnation of Krsna. It is the headquarter of ISKCON and sacred place of pilgrimage of Vaisnavas, whose founder Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada envisioned the temple in 1975. He said, \u201cJust like people from all over the world come to India to see Taj Mahal, similarly they should see glimpse of India\u2019s Religions, Civilization and Culture. Prabhupada expressed his desire to Alfred Ford, who is the great grandson of Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company.<\/p>\n
\nThe total cost of construction is Rs. 5 bn out of which 2.5bn has been donated by Alfred Ford only. He is the great grandson of famous American Industrialist Henry Ford. Alfred converted to Hinduism 37 years ago. He got in touch with Swami Prabhupada in 1974. He became his disciple after their fast meeting in America. New name \u2013 Ambarisa Das. He came to India along with Prabhupada. His wife in Bengali Hindu, Sharmila. The 63 yr old chairman of Mayapur Project Ambarisa, these days stays at Mayapur only. He says, \u201cThis the dream of my spiritual master and to see it being fulfilled I\u2019m roaming since last 3 yrs. This will be the world\u2019s biggest center of Vedic Culture. This is the goal of my life.<\/p>\n
\nISKCON is raising funds for covering balance 50% cost. People from world over are contributing to cost of Rs. 7000 per square feet. Till now more than 6000 people have contributed. ISKCON\u2019s network is in 85 countries and has more than 1000 temples.<\/p>\n
\n1.There will be gorgeous temples of Lord Krsna and Narsighadeva.
\n2.Large kirtan hall, where 10000 devotees will perform kirtan.
\n3.300 seater capacity world class planetarium theatre, which will show the glimpse of universe as per Gita\u2019s philosophy.
\n4.Also Vedic Astrology and Cosmology centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![](\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/462013-11-05-09-3146.jpg\"\/)
By Anuj Agrawal<\/strong><\/p>\n