Lucknow, 5 August: According to engineers on the construction site, 40 percent of the temple construction work is complete two years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
The temple’s first floor is planned to be completed by early 2024. “This is a plinth construction project that is moving quickly. We have begun building on the actual temple from the ‘Garbha Griha,’ or sanctum sanctorum region, at the same time. The temple’s walls are made of pink sandstone from Rajasthan “Jagdeesh, one of the Ram Janmabhoomi Trust’s five overseeing head engineers said.
?The sandstone work may also be seen from a distance. Working at the site is a source of pride for me,” said Utpal, an engineer. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath took part in a ceremony in June this year to lay the foundation stone of the temple’s ‘Garbha Griha,’ or sanctum sanctorum, by placing the first carved stone in it.
The inner sanctorum would be available to worshiper?s just months before the important 2024 Lok Sabha election.
The overall stone volume for the temple project would be between 8 and 9 lakh cubic feet of carved sandstone and 6.37 lakh cubic feet of uncarved granite.
The Ram Janmabhoomi trust, which is in charge of temple building, said in a statement that white marbles from Rajasthan’s Makrana hills will be used in the sanctum sanctorum.
According to the temple trust, the total stone volume for the temple project will be 8 to 9 lakh cubic feet of carved sandstone, 6.37 lakh cubic feet of uncarved granite, 4.70 lakh cubic feet of carved pink sandstone for the temple, and 13,300 cubic feet of Makrana white carved marble for the sanctum sanctorum. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the temple’s ‘Bhoomi Pujan,’ or foundation stone laying event, in August 2020, following which construction began.
