Hindu temple
Shri Swaminarayan Temple, Wheeling is a Swaminarayan Hindu temple located in the Chicago suburb of Wheeling . It comes under the International Swaminarayan Satsang Mandal (Laxmi Narayan Dev Gadi ) of the Swaminarayan Sampraday .[ 1] International Swaminarayan Satsang Organisation .[ 2]
Opened on 26 May 1991 by Acharya Shree Ajendraprasadji Maharaj , it is built on two acres of land.[ 3]
Built at a cost of $1.7 million, it is a tri-spire temple with the spires adorning the front edge of the flat topped building. Surrounded by industrial structures, it is a square-shaped, cream coloured structure with a big prayer hall that caters to a 40,000 strong community and is run entirely by volunteers. The image of Swaminarayan is worshipped in pictorial form along with other avatars of Narayana.[ 4]
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References
Williams, Raymond (2001), Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-65422-7 Williams, Raymond (2004), Williams on South Asian Religions and Immigration: Collected Works , Ashgate Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7546-3856-1
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