SHRDI, INDIA, January 11, 2009: The four walls surrounding the statue of Shirdi Sai Baba have been adorned with gold sheets embossed with pictures of the 20th century saint.
The sheets, prepared using about 50 kg of gold, 50 kg of bronze and about 250 kg of copper, have been donated to the temple’s trust by a Hyderabad-based businessman. Bangalore-based artist Raja Algar who has embossed the sheets with pictures depicting the saint, six in all, has been working on it since the past four months, he said.
The temple, the second richest in the country after Tirupati Balaji, see 25 per cent increase in the number of devotees each year, the trustee said.