As the festival of Navratri commences on Thursday, beautiful idols could be seen being taken to pandals. Besides, there are beautiful pandals erected in the city. One of them is replica of Pashupatinath Mandir of Nepal, at Bittan Market.
The Jai Maa Durga Utsav Samiti, Bhopal has erected the replica of this 15th century temple which is spread in the area of 10,000 square feet. The temple listed in UNESCO World heritage Site is known among the most scared temple dedicated to Pashupatinath. It is located on the banks of Bagmati river, Kathmandu.
It is to be noted that after a hard work of three long months the temple replica was completed on Wednesday. Member of Jai Maa Durga Utsav Samiti Rajendra Gupta told The Pioneer, “Every year we plan something new to celebrate Durga festival. This time our plan was to again bring something unique for the devotees and so we thought of Pashupatinath temple of Nepal.”
Gupta further informed that an artist from Bengal Pavitra Rai was especially invited to guide and ideate the entire project. This entire replica of the temple is completed with the total expenditure of Rs 40 lakh. “This is one of the costliest pandal ever erected in the city and one of its kinds in the State,” said Gupta. Further various devotional activities will also take place during the evening puja time.