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THE MANDIR
Neasden Temple is a beautiful, opulent place of worship found in the London Borough of Brent. It is one of the best symbols of London’s rich, multi-cultural society.
The Neasden Temple’s full name is the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir.
This mandir is constructed out of 8,000 tonnes of Indian and Italian marble and Bulgarian limestone, all of which had to be shipped to a mini-township in Kandla, India, where 650 artisans intricately carved the stone into 23,000 different pieces.
Back in the UK, the local community came together to raise the £12 million required to build the chapel, and then, as the pieces of the world’s heaviest jigsaw puzzle arrived, over 1,000 volunteers assisted in their assembly.
