Swaminarayan Temple

A Hindu temple, Swaminarayan Mandir, located near Highway 427 and Finch Avenue West, Toronto, Canada is opened officially on July 22, 2007.

$40-million project involving more than 2,000 Indian craftsmen and about 400 volunteers from Toronto’s Hindu community worked on its construction for more than a year. It was constructed by 24,000 hand-carved pieces of Turkish limestone and Italian Carrara marble that were shipped across the ocean and assembled in Toronto.

Each of the parts were marked with a bar code to facilitate construction.