Prime Minister Narendra Modi and AP Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu would lay the foundation stone for the first Golden Temple in Andhra Pradesh which will be built by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) on October 22 on the occasion of Dasara. The ISKCON temple will be constructed in 80 acres of land near the Kondaveedu Fort area in Guntur.
A rare 13th century idol of Venna Mudda Gopaludu belonging to the period of Sri Krishnadevaraya was found in the 1998 excavations in Kondaveedu and it inspired ISKCON to build the temple with an estimated 200 crore budget in the land donated by the State Endowments Department. The authorities have already built the cow sheds and started rearing the cows at the Gosala.
ISKCON is planning this ambitious temple on par with the Amritsar Golden Temple and Sripuram goddess Lakshmi Golden Temple and turn it into a major tourist attraction. The temple dome and the sanatorium would be coated with pure gold and an international school, a religious theme park, Kondaveedu Museum, a Vedic school, a medical centre and a cow protection centre will be built in the temple complex.
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