Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Dholera
Dholera, Dhandhuka Ahmedabad Gujarat 382455 India
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History
Dholera itself is an ancient port-city, 30 k.m. away from Dhandhuka of Ahmedabad district.
The making this temple with three domes was supervised and planned by Nishkulanand Swami, Atmanand Swami, Akshardanand Swami and Dharmprasad Swami.
The land for this abode of Gods, was gifted by Darbar Punjabhai. Shree Swaminarayan Bhagwan, when camping in Kamiala, was requested by the devotees Shri Punjabhai and others, to go to Dholera to install the idols of God in the new temple in Dholera. Shree Swaminarayan Bhagwan asked Brahmin priests to find out an auspicious time for the installation ceremony.
Shree Swaminarayan Bhagwan graced Dholera on the request from Punjabhai and other devotees, and on VS 1882 on the 13th day of the dark half of the month of Vaishakh (Saturday 19th May 1826 AD) lord installed the idols of Madan Mohan Dev and his own form Harikrishna Maharaj at the principal seat of the temple and invoked Gods amidst Vedic hymns.
Besides the Gods in the inner temple and sanctum sanctorum, Hanuman and Ganapati grace Roop Chowki near the main stairway of the temple. On the west, near the steps, there are the idols of Sheshashayi, Suryanarayan, Dharm-Bhakti and Ghanshyam Maharaj. The idols of Shankar and Parvati are on the right hand side.
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