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Photo: Photo by Swaminarayan Sanstha via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Built without a single piece of steel, from pink sandstone and Italian marble, by the hands of over 7,000 artisans.
India's largest comprehensive Hindu temple complex, opened in 2005 and built entirely without steel, using traditional Hindu temple architecture carved from pink sandstone and Italian marble. The intricately carved complex draws on the craftsmanship of over 7,000 artisans and features exhibition halls, a musical fountain and India's largest stepped waterfront. It is dedicated to Bhagwan Swaminarayan and run by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha. The complex was entered into the Guinness World Records as the world's largest comprehensive Hindu temple.
| Monday | Closed |
| Tue-Sun | 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM |
Shah Jahan's mosque took six years to build, and its courtyard can hold 25,000 worshippers.
No idols, no sermons, no rituals, only silence, open to people of every faith beneath 27 marble petals.