Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Temple
Meadow Garth, Church End, London NW10

The Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Temple is Europes's first traditional Hindu temple. 

The great marble building was constructed in Neasden in 1995 by a Hindu sect to replicate the Akshardam outside Ahmedabad in Gujarat, western Indian. 

Around 1,500 sculptors were employed to fashion the 5,000 tons of limestone and marble.  Such work was unprecedented in Britain since the great cathedral-building era of the Middle Ages. 

Today the temple's beautiful pinnacles and domes rise into a west London landscape previously dominated by post-war towers and housing estates. 

Popular with Hindus, Sikhs and Moslems, the temple welcomes discreetly dressed visitors.