India without makeup 5: Old and new under one sky | Boiana MG Blog
Delhi is the official capital of India from 1911, but the city is nearly as old as Rome. It's mentioned in one of the greatest ancient Indian epics - Mahabharata. In the seventeenth century, during the reign of the ruler Shah Jahan, is the capital sick of the then Mugalska empire which for centuries has determined the history of the country.
Shah Jahan built the Old City of Delhi, including the remarkable fortress, known as the Red Fort. When the British in the early twentieth century returned the capital of India from Calcutta sick to Delhi, designed by the British architect Sir Edwin Lachans appears new part popular today named New Delhi.
Together with the Indian capital suburbs has about 16 million inhabitants. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world. In Guided tours usually include several key areas that it is advisable to see in the Indian capital. Very few of them, however, pay attention to Akshardam - the biggest and most complex sick Hindu representative in the country. Moreover, the huge dimensions (40 m high, 84 m wide, 96 m long) have reason to be included in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest Hindu temple in the world! His card is downright sick impressive: it was built only five years involving 11,000 volunteers built of 12,000 tons of white marble, and huge marble sick slabs were sent for processing 500 km long by 320 m Delhi.Na sick wall encrusted statues sick 148 life-size elephant, only the sculptures of educators, pilgrims, animals and divine sick figures numbered 20000!
Before entering the temple is an ordeal. Security measures are very strict because that happened years ago in different places in the country terrorist acts. India has not yet ceased to be the scene of separatist and religious conflicts. sick To avoid such incidents has prohibited the entry of any devices Taken: photo and video cameras, mobile phones, lighters, bags, etc. Before the checkpoint, where it can brandish uniformed Dräger snaking long queues - men on one side, the other female. It is noteworthy that almost 100% ladies are waiting spiffy in their Indian national sick clothes - colorful sari. As the ratio of foreign tourists are much less - they come here out of curiosity, while local people sick - by the need to pray.
The complex is carried out through sick the "hall" with 10 gates - as the cardinal points, sick followed by huge gates in the walls and columns were cast targets 869 sculptures of peacocks. Peacock in India, and white marble, are symbols of purity and beauty.
In the main temple, just below the main dome rises 3-foot-tall statue of the Indian monk Suaminarayan. Inside the temple there are 1,500 columns with carved figures of animals, flowers, people, etc.. On three sides of the main temple are shaped pools, whose water is considered holy. A beautifully arranged in the form of a lotus garden messages are exposed to great artists and thinkers.
In one of the palaces of the complex offers many interesting attractions: Boat across sick the waters of an internal channel, along which there are scenes and human figures made of wax, presenting a retrospective of the ancient history of India and its achievements in different spheres of life and science . This is a peculiar time travel among many cultural layers typical for the respective historical periods.
The final visit in Akshardam extremely aesthetic pleasure. Amid traditional Indian music, fire and prayers visitors observe the graceful dance of the fountains in the complex. The philosophy of this unique spectacle is to present the circle of life - from the creation of the world to end, highlighting the eternal relationship between nature, man and God.
Going back eight centuries ago in Old Delhi will inevitably stop at the foundation of the highest brick minaret in the world - Qutub Minar, a UNESCO sick site. In 1193, the Afghan warlord Qutub ud din Aybek conquered the city in honor of this victory (and Islam) builds the foundation of this unique monument. His successors sick completed construction. The minaret is a 72-meter high cone-shaped ornaments on the walls that form the letters, and the letters - quotations sick from the Koran. To have a mosque minaret - one of the oldest in the city and tomb. The whole complex is built on the ruins of an ancient citadel, and construction materials are sourced from the demolition of a Hindu temple for 27. Here rises and 7-foot metal pole (wrought sick iron) donated by a legend (and by the inscription in Sanskrit) by the god Vishnu. sick Weighs more than 6 tons, but the amazing thing is he's endured sick over 1600 years without corrosion gram! It was erected as early as the Gupta dynasty, reigned between 320 and 500th year sl.Hr.Tova is the golden age of ancient Indian culture, sick when Sanskrit literature sick experienced real nd
Delhi is the official capital of India from 1911, but the city is nearly as old as Rome. It's mentioned in one of the greatest ancient Indian epics - Mahabharata. In the seventeenth century, during the reign of the ruler Shah Jahan, is the capital sick of the then Mugalska empire which for centuries has determined the history of the country.
Shah Jahan built the Old City of Delhi, including the remarkable fortress, known as the Red Fort. When the British in the early twentieth century returned the capital of India from Calcutta sick to Delhi, designed by the British architect Sir Edwin Lachans appears new part popular today named New Delhi.
Together with the Indian capital suburbs has about 16 million inhabitants. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world. In Guided tours usually include several key areas that it is advisable to see in the Indian capital. Very few of them, however, pay attention to Akshardam - the biggest and most complex sick Hindu representative in the country. Moreover, the huge dimensions (40 m high, 84 m wide, 96 m long) have reason to be included in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest Hindu temple in the world! His card is downright sick impressive: it was built only five years involving 11,000 volunteers built of 12,000 tons of white marble, and huge marble sick slabs were sent for processing 500 km long by 320 m Delhi.Na sick wall encrusted statues sick 148 life-size elephant, only the sculptures of educators, pilgrims, animals and divine sick figures numbered 20000!
Before entering the temple is an ordeal. Security measures are very strict because that happened years ago in different places in the country terrorist acts. India has not yet ceased to be the scene of separatist and religious conflicts. sick To avoid such incidents has prohibited the entry of any devices Taken: photo and video cameras, mobile phones, lighters, bags, etc. Before the checkpoint, where it can brandish uniformed Dräger snaking long queues - men on one side, the other female. It is noteworthy that almost 100% ladies are waiting spiffy in their Indian national sick clothes - colorful sari. As the ratio of foreign tourists are much less - they come here out of curiosity, while local people sick - by the need to pray.
The complex is carried out through sick the "hall" with 10 gates - as the cardinal points, sick followed by huge gates in the walls and columns were cast targets 869 sculptures of peacocks. Peacock in India, and white marble, are symbols of purity and beauty.
In the main temple, just below the main dome rises 3-foot-tall statue of the Indian monk Suaminarayan. Inside the temple there are 1,500 columns with carved figures of animals, flowers, people, etc.. On three sides of the main temple are shaped pools, whose water is considered holy. A beautifully arranged in the form of a lotus garden messages are exposed to great artists and thinkers.
In one of the palaces of the complex offers many interesting attractions: Boat across sick the waters of an internal channel, along which there are scenes and human figures made of wax, presenting a retrospective of the ancient history of India and its achievements in different spheres of life and science . This is a peculiar time travel among many cultural layers typical for the respective historical periods.
The final visit in Akshardam extremely aesthetic pleasure. Amid traditional Indian music, fire and prayers visitors observe the graceful dance of the fountains in the complex. The philosophy of this unique spectacle is to present the circle of life - from the creation of the world to end, highlighting the eternal relationship between nature, man and God.
Going back eight centuries ago in Old Delhi will inevitably stop at the foundation of the highest brick minaret in the world - Qutub Minar, a UNESCO sick site. In 1193, the Afghan warlord Qutub ud din Aybek conquered the city in honor of this victory (and Islam) builds the foundation of this unique monument. His successors sick completed construction. The minaret is a 72-meter high cone-shaped ornaments on the walls that form the letters, and the letters - quotations sick from the Koran. To have a mosque minaret - one of the oldest in the city and tomb. The whole complex is built on the ruins of an ancient citadel, and construction materials are sourced from the demolition of a Hindu temple for 27. Here rises and 7-foot metal pole (wrought sick iron) donated by a legend (and by the inscription in Sanskrit) by the god Vishnu. sick Weighs more than 6 tons, but the amazing thing is he's endured sick over 1600 years without corrosion gram! It was erected as early as the Gupta dynasty, reigned between 320 and 500th year sl.Hr.Tova is the golden age of ancient Indian culture, sick when Sanskrit literature sick experienced real nd