Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a host of other VIPs will attend the “historic” ceremony for the Ram temple in Ayodhya on 5 August, the temple trust said. The grand preparations are going on for the ceremony which will revolve around the installation of a 40kg silver brick as the foundation stone by the Prime Minister, as per the statement by Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra, which has been tasked with the temple building.
The Daily Guardian exclusively spoke to Chandrakant Sompura, an architect of the temple who apprised us that the Ram temple will be built in Nagara style of architecture and carved from pink stone.
According to Nritya Gopal Das, president of the trust mandated by the Supreme Court, the “bhumi pujan” will be performed by placing the silver brick at the sanctum sanctorum. Three-daylong Vedic rituals will be held before the main ceremony that will commence from 3 August and more than 50 saints and VIPs will grace the function.
Sompura informs that he made a Ram temple design 30 years ago and seeing the overwhelming response of the devotees, the temple trust decided to make it large. Now the temple will have five domes, one on the left side, the other on the right and one in front.
The temple will have over 300 pillars and its completion will take three-and-a-half years. Its structure will encompass carving on a pink stone with multiple designs of the Hindu goddess on it. Once the “bhumi pujan” is done by PM Modi, the work will begin in full swing.
All senior BJP leaders associated with the temple movement have been invited, the trust confirmed. The list will include BJP veterans Lal Krishna Advani and Murali Manohar Joshi, and senior leaders such as Uma Bharti, Vinay Katiyar and Sadhvi Ritambhara. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aadityanath and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will also join the ceremony. Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray and his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar are also likely to attend.