Lotus Temple

Lotus Temple :

The Lotus Temple is located in New Delhi, India. Lotus Temple at front visitors approaching the Lotus Temple Baha’i House of worship’. The Lotus Temple interior view of the symbol of the Greatest Name, set at the top of the temple. Lotus Temple at sunset is very very good.

Lotus Temple is a Baha’i House of worship, the Lotus Temple is open to all regardless of religion, or any other distinction, as emphasized iin Baha’i texts. All Baha’i Houses of worship, including the Lotus Temple, share certain architectural elements, some of which are specified by Baha’i scriptyre.

Abdul- Bahaa, the son of the founder of the religion, stipulated the an essential architectural character of a House of worship is a nine – sided circular shape. Lotus Temple has won numerous architectural awards and been featured in hundered of articles. In 1986 Baha’i House of Worship completed. Notable for its flowerlike shape, it serves as the Mother Temple of the Indian subcontinent and has become a prominent attraction in the city.

Model of the temple at the information center inspired by the lotus flower, the House of Worship in New Delhi is composed of 27 free-standing marble clad “petals’ arranged in clusters of three to form nine sides. The nine doors of the Lotus Temple open into a cintral hall slightly mare then 40 meters tall. that is capable of holding up to 2,500 people.

The surface of the House of Worship is made of white marble from penteli mountain in Greece, the very same from which many ancient monments and other Baha’i Houses of Worship are built. Lotus Temple property comprises 26 accres.

The site is in the village of Bahapur, in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The architect was an Iranian, who now lives in Canada, named Fariborz Sahba. He was approched in 1976 to design was undertaken by the UK firm Flint and Neill. The major part of the funds needed to buy this land was donated by Ardishir Rustampur of Hyderbad.

Lotus Temple at Tourism :

Since its inauguration to public worship in December 1986, the Baha’i House of Worship in Delhi has, as of late 2002, attracted more than 50 milion visitors, making it one of the most visited buildings in the world. Its numbers of visitors during those years surpassed those of the Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal. On Hindu celebrative days and holy days, it has drawn as many as 1,50,000 people.

The House of Worship is generallu referred to as the ‘Lotus Temple’. In India , during the Hindu festival Durga Puja, several times a replica of the Lotus Temple has been made as a pandal, a temporary structure set up to venerate the goddess Durga.

The Lotus Temple surrounding the Lotus Temple one of the nine Ponds. Lotus Temple has received wide range of attention in professional architectural, fine art, religious, governmental, and other venues. In 1987, the architect of the Baha’i House of Worship, Mr. Fariborz Sahba, was presented the award for excellence in religious art and architecture by the UK – based Institution of Structural Engineers for producing a building beauty of a flower and so atriking in its visual impact.