{"id":243,"date":"2013-02-25T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vnn.org\/vaisnava-news\/?p=243"},"modified":"2013-03-17T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T13:16:10","slug":"vedic-temple-worlds-largest-may-open-by-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaishnava-news-network.org\/vaisnava-news\/vedic-temple-worlds-largest-may-open-by-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Vedic Temple, world\u2019s largest, may open by 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kolkata,\u00a0February 17, 2013 (VNN) via The Hindu<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/vaishnava-news-network.org\/vaisnava-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ford-temple.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-244\" alt=\"ford-temple\" src=\"https:\/\/vaishnava-news-network.org\/vaisnava-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ford-temple-300x196.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vaishnava-news-network.org\/vaisnava-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ford-temple-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vaishnava-news-network.org\/vaisnava-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ford-temple.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Alfred Brush Ford, a great-grandson of Ford Motors\u2019 founder Henry Ford is investing $35 million (nearly Rs 189 crore) to spread Vedic Knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>A follower of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), the Ford family scion has been overseeing the development of the $75-million Temple of The Vedic Planetarium at Mayapur in West Bengal for the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe temple (will be) like a gateway to the spiritual world,\u201d Ford told reporters here on Monday. The ISKCON temple currently receives four million visitors a year and is expected to receive around 10 million visitors once the Vedic temple is opened by 2016, he added.<\/p>\n<p>While the entire built-up area of the temple would be 4.25 lakh sq ft, Ford has financed construction of around 1.75 lakh sq ft , Anand Poddar , Deputy Chairman of Vedic Temple said.<\/p>\n<p>With a capacity to accommodate 10,000 devotees, the 340 ft-tall temple will have a 75 ft-domed Planetarium. It will also house an Institute of Vedic Cosmology.<\/p>\n<p>Even though ISKCON had sought 400 acres of land from the West Bengal Government in 2004, the society was not given such a big chunk of land. \u201cWe scrapped the old plan as it was quite expensive. We decided to build the temple in the existing premises at Mayapur,\u201d Ford said.<\/p>\n<p>ISKCON has said devotees would now be able to contribute for developing 2.5 lakh sq ft of the temple at Rs 7,000 per sq ft. Each contributor would be acknowledged , Poddar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata,\u00a0February 17, 2013 (VNN) via The Hindu Alfred Brush Ford, a great-grandson of Ford Motors\u2019 founder Henry Ford is investing $35 million (nearly Rs 189 crore) to spread Vedic Knowledge. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vaishnava-news-network.org\/vaisnava-news\/vedic-temple-worlds-largest-may-open-by-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-world","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vedic Temple, world\u2019s largest, may open by 2016 - 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