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Jain Temple in USA: Chandrakant Sompura, the architect who built the Ayodhya Ram Temple, has designed many temples in the country and abroad, while sitting in Gujarat, he has built a huge temple in Atlanta, USA in just 1.5 years.
According to Chandrakant Sompura, many temples have been built in America, but a temple with a spire has not been built yet. 10 years ago, the Jain Society of Greater Atlanta Sangh contacted me. The Jain Sangh had land in Nurkose, Atlanta and two-three other places.
Everything from the size of the land to its direction was sent to us. After getting all the permissions, Derasana was built in Atlanta in just 1.5 years. For which all the marble was arranged in sequence and about 20 tons of marble was sent from Gujarat via sea.
He further said that without going to America, we have built the entire Derasar 13239 kilometers away from here. We have done the entire process of building the Derasar here itself. We never went to America for that and that is why I remember this place in Atlanta in my career.
How to determine direction to the temple from Gujarat?
The first one was to be the temple in Nurkose, Atlanta. There was no time to start work on the new temple 10 years ago, but I felt it should be done later so decided to prepare the temple.
Through online we saw the place directionally and shastratically, one of which was good for building a house. We said, it would be good if the temple is built here. After which the people of the Sangh agreed and the question came back that how to build the temple? But we had a tech-record in Nikan temple of London. We could not put that small Remo truck in front of the people if they questioned the temple of American Council Power. Such a grand temple was built.
When seen from a distance, it appears that it is made of real marble.
We insist on stone temples, but what if there is not enough budget for a stone temple? Such a small thought was going on in my mind. There is a big question of budget between stone and cement-concrete temple. The budget for building a stone temple is more than that of a cement concrete temple. A few years later, while working again with the committee members, it was decided that one should make the surface look as if it were real marble.
