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Bharat Mata Mandir
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh · 25.3172°, 82.9893°
Bharat Mata (the nation personified as a goddess)Modern—
Sacred since
1936 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
inaugurated 1936
Modern
History & significance
A temple on the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith campus founded by Babu Shiv Prasad Gupta and inaugurated in 1936, which holds no image at all: its object of veneration is a to-scale marble relief map of undivided India. Gandhi opened it, remarking that the only thing enshrined there was the map.