Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir in Uttar Pradesh will be bigger than Vatican City’s St Peter’s Basilica and rise higher than Ulm Minster in Germany when completed.
Work is under way on the world’s tallest religious skyscraper: a 213 metre-tall Hindu temple in India.
Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir in Uttar Pradesh will be bigger than Vatican City’s St Peter’s Basilica and rise higher than Ulm Minster in Germany when completed.
The temple-cum-cultural centre, which includes a theme park, is being built for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
The earthquake-proof building’s tiered silhouette is reminiscent of a rocket ship, rising 70 storeys in the air.
A capsule elevator will run through the height of the structure, whisking visitors up to a viewing deck. The ride doubles as a light and sound experience, taking people through the planetary systems of the universe, as laid out in Vedic literature.
Dedicated to Hindu deity Lord Sri Krishna - who, according to scripture, is said to have grown up in Vrindavan - the temple will be surrounded by apartments and villas, which the New Indian Express reports, will be sold to fund the project.
The 511 columns holding up the temple are due to be completed by March next year.
For those wanting to help, the temple’s website is inviting people to sponsor 10 bags of cement.
Source: CNN