India to build replica Angkor Wat

Thursday, 06 Mar, 2012 0

India plans to build a replica of Angkor Wat, the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Cambodia.

A Hindu trust is sponsoring the project, which will cost an estimated US$20 million, on a 40-acre plot of land in the eastern state of Bihar, according to AFP.

“It will be a replica of Angkor Wat but the temple will be slightly taller than the original,” said Kishore Kunal, secretary of the Bihar Mahavir Mandir Trust.

The trust’s secretary, Acharya Kishore Kunal, told the BBC that the temple “will be known as Virat Angkor Wat Ram temple but will also house other Hindu deities like Radha-Krishna, Shiv-Parvati, Ganesh, Surya and 10 incarnations of Lord Vishnu.

“We’ll make this temple the pride of the Hindu temples in the world and I’ve started it on the occasion of the 100th year of Bihar state’s foundation.”



 

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