Swaminarayan Temple, Ahmedabad
Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Kalupur is the first Temple of the Swaminarayan Sampraday, a Hindu sect. It is located in Kalupur area of Ahmedabad, the largest city in Gujarat, India. It was built on the instructions of Swaminarayan, the founder of the sect.
The headquarters of the NarNarayan Dev Gadi
Sculptured wooden pillar
The temple in 1866
Nar Narayan: installed by Swaminarayan
The Swaminarayan Sampradaya, also known as Swaminarayan Hinduism and Swaminarayan movement, is a Hindu Vaishnava sampradaya rooted in Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita, characterized by the worship of its charismatic founder Sahajanand Swami, better known as Swaminarayan (1781–1830), as an avatar of Krishna or as the highest manifestation of Purushottam, the supreme God. According to the tradition's lore, both the religious group and Sahajanand Swami became known as Swaminarayan after the Swaminarayan mantra, which is a compound of two Sanskrit words, swami and Narayan.
Acharya Ajendraprasad & Acharya Koshalendraprasad
Swaminarayan temple Ahmedabad 1866
Mahant Swami Maharaj, current guru and president of BAPS
Boy offering personal worship