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The foundations of devotion.
(From The Times of India)
THE Shri Swaminarayan temple of Kalupur, comes as a surprise while travelling through the narrow serpentine streets off Relief Road. The sheer magnanimity of the temple structure seems out of the ordinary.
This temple which was the first of the sect was founded in 1822. The installation of the idols of Narayan Dev at this place was made by Sahajanand Swami himself. History has it that during the British rule, the then British officer Sir Dunlop was impressed with the activities carried out by Shri Hari and gave him and his followers 5,000 acres of land which extended to the present day Kalupur railway station. The vast piece of land …
