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| Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Nairobi (EASS Temple) |
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Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Nairobi (EASS Temple) |
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Year 1945 |
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Lord Swaminarayan |
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Nairobi |
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The East Africa Swaminarayan Satsang Temple, Nairobi was built in 1945 and was the first Swaminarayan temple to be built on the continent of Africa. This temple comes under the NarNarayan Dev Gadi of the Swaminarayan Sampraday. [1]
[edit] History of this temple
Pictorial images of Swaminarayan were consecrated in India and were then shipped to Nairobi in 1945. [1] In 1957 Acharya Maharajshree Tejendraprasad Pande (in his Pre-Acharya status) on behalf of his father (who was then Acharya), visited the temple for the first time and installed images of Swaminarayan in the ladies section. [1]
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