Swaminarayan Museum

Shree Swaminarayan Museum
Swaminarayan Museum is located in Ahmedabad
Swaminarayan Museum
Location within Ahmedabad
Swaminarayan Museum is located in Gujarat
Swaminarayan Museum
Swaminarayan Museum (Gujarat)
Swaminarayan Museum is located in India
Swaminarayan Museum
Swaminarayan Museum (India)
Established8 March 2011[1]
LocationNaranpura, Ahmedabad
Coordinates23°03′18″N 72°33′00″E / 23.055°N 72.550°E / 23.055; 72.550
Collection size3,000 artifacts used by Swaminarayan
Websitewww.swaminarayanmuseum.in

The Shree Swaminarayan Museum is a museum in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It houses of three thousand personal objects of Swaminarayan, who is believed to be a manifestation of god in Swaminarayan Hinduism. It is a project undertaken to protect God Swaminarayan's objects of Prasadi (personal objects) which can be viewed by all people for darshan.[2]

This is the first ever project in the Swaminarayan Sampraday to create this unity in all of God Swaminarayan's Prasadi objects from temples all over the world and will be a 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m2) complex built on 30,000 square yards (25,000 m2) with a total project cost of 10.5 Million.[2][3] This museum was envisioned former Acharya Tejendraprasad of the Narnarayan Dev Gadi.[2]

  1. ^ "Modi at Amdavad's newly opened Swaminarayan Museum". Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  2. ^ a b c "Shree Swaminarayan Museum".
  3. ^ "Rs 30-cr museum for Swaminarayan". Ahmedabad Mirror. 24 August 2009. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2009.