- Swaminarayan temples
Swaminarayan , the founder of theSwaminarayan Sampraday , established temples, known asmandir s (Devnagari : स्वमिनारायन मिद्र), as part of his philosophy of theism and deity worship.He constructed nine temples in the following cities;
Ahmedabad ,Bhuj ,Muli ,Vadtal ,Junagadh ,Dholera ,Dholka ,Gadhpur &Jetalpur . In these temples he installed images of variousHindu gods , such asNarNarayan Dev ,LaxmiNarayan Dev ,RadhaKrishna Dev ,RadhaRaman Dev , Revti-Baldevji, Madan Mohan Dev etc.Each of these nine original temples fall either under the
NarNarayan Dev Gadi ,Ahmedabad or theLaxmiNarayan Dev Gadi ,Vadtal depending on their geographical location.Today there are hundreds of Swaminarayan temples, [cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/19641173.cms | title= source lists Swaminarayan temples as around 1000 worldwide] spread across five
continent s. [cite web | url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/052165422X/ | title="Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism", Raymond Brady Williams, 2001]List of Swaminarayan temples by country
India Pakistan Sweden Australia New Zealand United Kingdom Uganda Fiji Thailand Kenya Tanzania Mauritius Seychelles United States of America Oman UAE Canada Notes
References
* [http://www.swaminarayansatsang.com/temples/temples.asp List of Mandirs Worldwide]
* [http://moksha.akshardham.org/~isso/chapters.html List of temples under ISSO]Further reading
* Barot, R., "Religion, Migration and Wealth Creation in the Swaminarayan Movement", The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks, Berg Publishers, 2002.
* Williams, Raymond Brady, "A New Face of Hinduism: The Swaminarayan Religion", Cambridge University Press,, 1984
* Nesbitt, E., "Locating British Hindus' sacred space", Contemporary South Asia, 15(2) p. 195-208. Routledge, 2006.Official Websites of the Swaminarayan Sampraday
* [http://swaminarayan.info Shri Narnarayan Dev Gadi Website]
* [http://vadtal.com Shri Laxminarayan Dev Gadi Website]
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