In Indian city Vrindavana it is planned to construct the highest religious building in the world.
Upon the accomplishment of building, the temple Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir will be higher than the Church of Saint Peter in Vatican and higher than Ulm Church in Germany, as CNN writes. The height of 70-floor building will be 213 meters.
The projecting of architectural sanctuary the creation of which was initiated by International Society for Krishna Consciousness was taken by the experts from the enterprises In Genious Studio and Thornton Tomasetti.
The earthquake-resistant construction will receive a multilevel design and will resemble a space ship. In the building the capsular elevator will be put which is about to take visitors at the sightseeing platform. Within the area of the temple they will locate a thematic park. Nearby, the apartments and villas for well-to-do Hare Krishna followers will be built – these people while buying an accommodation are about to fund the building of the temple.
Now the work of builders is concentrated on the laying the staunch 50-meter foundation. The total cost of the project is estimated approximately in 115 million dollars.
The Patriarch of Rome arranged a meeting with the scientist Stephen Hawking in Papal Academy of science located in Vatican. It is reported by Radio Vaticana.
Almost fifty million trees have been planted in Indian state Uttar Pradesh during the 11-th of July. The native land has been greened up by 800 thousand volunteers.
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Fragments of religious text which, as the experts suppose, had been written nearly 1448 years ago was found between pages of another ancient Koran in the library of University of Birmingham.
The mausoleum Taj Mahal that is considered as the sight, the most famous in India, acquired free-of-charge Wi-Fi for the tourists. The Union Minister holding International Technologies of India Ravi Shankar Prasad claimed that in his Twitter.
The church completely made from ice has risen at the height of 2000 meters in Romania. It is a place which you may reach only with the help of cable-railway.
Although India received independence on the 15-th of August 1947, its Constitution was introduced only on the 26-th of 1950, and this date is celebrated as Republic Day. The holiday is held throughout the country; however, the ceremonies in New Delhi are marked with special extent and splendor.
Birthday of outstanding statesman, first prime minister of independent India Jawaharlal Nehru is celebrated throughout the country as Children's Day. The Indian name of the holiday is Bal Divas.
Diwali that in Sanskrit means «a fiery bunch» — is the festival of lights celebrated in India as far as the eye could reach. It symbolizes the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil. It falls on the beginning of Kartik month (October – November) and is celebrated for five days.
Gilded Chamber of Britain parliament without votation approved the proposal of General Synod to allow women to become bishops of the Church of England.
Lag BaOmer is the anniversary of the death of the great sage Shimon bar Yochai (Rashbi). This day people visit Mount Meron in Israel where his grave is.
