![]() One of the gates of a Palitana temple is called Ramji Gate. This entry was posted in Dressy, Fashion, Life, etc, Outfit Post and tagged apt 9, garba, grey heels, gujarati folk music, india fashion blog, indian fusion, kohls, kutch, metallic top, printed blazer, ram leela movie review, ranveer singh, san jose fashion blog, sanjay leela bansali, simply vera wang on Novemby NS. The famous Somnath and Ambaji temples have been designed by Chandrakant Sompura’s father, Prabhashankar Sompura, while Chandrakant Sompura’s grandfather, Ramjibhai Sompura, has designed the temples of Palitana, in Gujarat. The father-son duo of Chandrakant and Ashish have so far designed 131 temples across the country and abroad. Chandrakant Sompura belongs to a celebrated temple architect family that has been designing temples for 18 generations. He added that the temple will now be almost double the size of what he had proposed. I had measured the dimensions with my feet before designing the temple,” Sompura said. “Nobody was allowed there at that time (1989) and there was strict security. “The temple should be ready in about three-and-a-half years,” the architect said. He added that a Ram temple at Ayodhya had been the desire of crores of people and, personally, he was overjoyed that its construction had begun. ![]() It is a moment of pride for me personally that construction of the temple which I designed has begun,” Sompura (77) said. For years to come people will associate my name with the magnificent Ram temple at Ayodhya. “People affectionately remember my grandfather Ramji Sompura as the architect of the Somnath temple. But his son, Ashish Sompura, was present for the “shilanyas” on Wednesday. As a designer, I have always enjoyed working with traditional Indian techniques and 'Ram-Leela' allowed me to be true to my aesthetic and research even further on the traditions and costumes of Gujarat,' she said. Chandrakant Sompura, the Ahmedabad-based architect whose design has been adopted by Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra for construction of the temple, did not visit Ayodhya because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. ''Ram-Leela' was my first movie and the adulation I have received for it has only added to this enriching experience. All the temples that I have designed so far are good, but this one is special”. AHMEDABAD: The architect who designed the Ram temple to be built in Ayodhya said on Wednesday that the design was “among the best that I have made. ![]()
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