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Laxminarayan Temple (Birla Mandir)
लक्ष्मी नारायण मंदिर
New Delhi, Delhi · 28.6375°, 77.1952°
Lakshmi and Narayana (Vishnu)ModernNagara (north Indian) style adapted with modern construction, by Sris Chandra Chatterjee
Sacred since
1933 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1933-1939 (Birla family)
Modern
History & significance
The first large Hindu temple built in Delhi, raised by the industrialists Baldeo Das and Jugal Kishore Birla and inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi's condition that it stay open to worshippers of all castes made it an early landmark of temple-entry reform.