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Swaminarayan Akshardham, Gandhinagar

Chandrakant Sompura · Gandhinagar, India · 1992

Key features108 ft main temple in about 6,000 tonnes of pink Rajasthan sandstone, 97 carved pillars and 17 domes; no steel used.

Architect
Chandrakant Sompura
Place
Gandhinagar, India
Year
1992
Typology
Religious
Movement
Regionalism
Region
South Asia
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