The beautiful, toy-like Lakshmi Narayan temple is located in the capital of India, Delhi. The temple is dedicated to the Hindu Goddess of health, Lakshmi, and her husband Narayan. The idea to create the temple belonged to famous Indian entrepreneurs and philanthropists. entrepreneurs and philanthropists, father and son, Baldeo Birla and Jugar Kishore Birla, so the structure is also known as the Birla Mandir, or Birla Temple. Construction began in 1933 and the inauguration took place in 1939. in 1939 in the presence of the country's great spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi, who urged the temple's the builders of the temple to open its doors to absolutely all people, irrespective of their social status and caste.
The entire temple complex, along with a large garden decorated with small fountains, covers an area of more than three hectares.
The building of the Lakshmi Narayan temple is in the so-called northern style, or Nagar style, typical of Hindu religious buildings in the northern part of India. India. Virtually the entire outer surface of the temple walls is covered with carved scenes from Indian mythology, carved by more than a hundred of the most skilful painters and sculptors of Varanasi's most skilful painters and sculptors. They also created statues of deities for the temple.
The building has three storeys and "faces" east. Its main tower rises over 48 metres above the street. The walls of the hall, which houses the temple's main shrine of the temple, the statues of Lakshmi and Narayan, are decorated with rich frescoes and beautiful paintings. beautiful paintings. They depict the gods in honour of whom the temple was and scenes from their "lives". Besides Lakshmi and her consort, the temple has statues of Shiva, Ganesha, Hanuman, and, of course, Buddha.
