Indian temple will be the world's tallest religious skyscraper

[4GTejasBVR]

When we build we do it in massive style. It's from our ancient times. We want to have the best we can afford or even beyond to celebrate our culture and history. And we always respected our gods

 

[SarthakGanguly]

A new wonder.
But have to say, the same investment on education will produce more money and talents for India.

This is a private building.

Hope Indian artisans are recruited. Big spenders often ignore them.

 

[4GTejasBVR]

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/21/a...t-religious-skyscraper-duplicate-2/index.html
Indian temple will be the world's tallest religious skyscraper
By Betty Wood, The Spaces
Updated 0335 GMT (1135 HKT) November 22, 2016

This article was originally published by The Spaces, a digital publication exploring new ways to live and work.
(CNN)Work is underway on the world's tallest religious skyscraper: a 700-foot-tall Hindu temple in India.
The earthquake-proof building's tiered silhouette is reminiscent of a rocket ship, rising 70 stories in the air.
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"Attractions planned in the theme park would be like park rides, animatronics, light, sound and special effects as well as the Vraja Mandal parikrama shows and laser shows," says Narasimha Das, project director of the temple.
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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.

Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir in Uttar Pradesh will be bigger than Vatican City's St Peter's Basilica and rise higher than Ulm Minster when completed.
Indian practice InGenious Studio and structural consultant Thornton Tomasetti have designed the temple-cum-cultural center, which includes a theme park, for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

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 around 30 acres of forest, planted to recreate the twelve forests of Braj.
Social facilities will skirt the temple as well as apartments and villas, which the New Indian Express reports will be sold to fund the project. It will also be financed by donations from devotees.
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Right now, work is concentrated on the building's 180-foot-deep foundations.
"(These) will have 511 columns, which will be completed by March next year," confirms Das.
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When we get richer in years to come expecting more morvals

 

[Echo_419]

I still prefer this architecture

Good thing western barbarians weren't able to reach South India

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Good thing western barbarians weren't able to reach South India

In a way yes. But Malik Kafur did damage Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple and one in current Karnataka. Our temples are spread through SE Asia with Dravidian architecture though they are abondoned later. Now they are reclaimed and pursued with vigorous interests.

 

[Echo_419]

In a way yes. But Malik Kafur did damage Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple and one in current Karnataka. Our temples are spread through SE Asia with Dravidian architecture though they are abondoned later. Now they are reclaimed and pursued with vigorous interests.

In a way yes. But Malik Kafur did damage Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple and one in current Karnataka. Our temples are spread through SE Asia with Dravidian architecture though they are abondoned later. Now they are reclaimed and pursued with vigorous interests.

Off topic question, wasn't the word Dravidian invented by the British to cause a North-South Divide?

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Off topic question, wasn't the word Dravidian invented by the British to cause a North-South Divide?

Actually no and a yes. Dravidian is an Sanskrit term which denoted to the people of the south. The term covered the whole of south. Incidentally the Northern people were called as Gauda. It may have become Arya later. The word Dravida later became Tamizha.
The word was long forgotten before the British got hold of the words and used to further divide Indian people.

 

[Mamluk]

Off topic question, wasn't the word Dravidian invented by the British to cause a North-South Divide?

You have to have a term to refer to the South Indian family of languages. If you don't like "Dravidian", find another name.

 

[Echo_419]

Actually no and a yes. Dravidian is an Sanskrit term which denoted to the people of the south. The term covered the whole of south. Incidentally the Northern people were called as Gauda. It may have become Arya later. The word Dravida later became Tamizha.
The word was long forgotten before the British got hold of the words and used to further divide Indian people.

The brits turned a harmless word into a weapon

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

The brits turned a harmless word into a weapon

The thing is they couldnt invent a word out of thin air and turn it into a weapon. They need a weave a story with facts. Whatever the reason might be, Indians have forgotten their own history before the British, Germans and other Europeans 're-discovered' it for us.

 

[rott]

Damn, it's 2016 and almost 2017 and people still believe God exists?

 

[punit]

i only hope that money involved in the construction is white.

 

[utraash]

I would always prefer indian architecture than western...
Our temples were built more scientifically than any other buildings on planet in old days, somehow we could not care to preserve these valuable knowledge which decayed so rapidly that we had to adopt a western stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_temple_architecture

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Damn, it's 2016 and almost 2017 and people still believe God exists?

Tell that to your Pakistani friends

 

[Nan Yang]

10 years ago, India also proposed another tallest building in the world. So what happen ?