www.tomsteel.co.uk » neasden http://www.tomsteel.co.uk Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:17:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Neasden Temple http://www.tomsteel.co.uk/2009/01/neasden-temple/ http://www.tomsteel.co.uk/2009/01/neasden-temple/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:16:37 +0000 Tom http://www.tomsteel.co.uk/?p=106 090103neasden_500
Biggest Hindu Temple outside India: The Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Neasden, London, UK, is the largest Hindu temple outside India. It was built by His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj, a 79-year-old Indian sadhu (holy man), and is made of 2,828 tonnes of Bulgarian limestone and 2,000 tonnes of Italian marble, which was first shipped to India to be carved by a team of 1,526 sculptors. The temple cost £12 million to build.

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