{"id":18303,"date":"2022-03-30T04:37:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T04:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=18303"},"modified":"2022-03-30T04:37:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T04:37:16","slug":"telangana-chief-minister-to-inaugurate-greatly-expanded-yadadri-hill-temple-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2022\/03\/30\/telangana-chief-minister-to-inaugurate-greatly-expanded-yadadri-hill-temple-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Telangana Chief Minister to Inaugurate Greatly Expanded Yadadri Hill Temple Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TELANGANA, INDIA, March 28, 2022 (The Print): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Monday will inaugurate the newly reconstructed Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district. Speaking to ANI, Geeta, Temple Executive Officer said, \u201cAfter the formation of Telangana state, the government decided to reconstruct the Yadadri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple, under Yadagirigutta Temple Development Authority (YTDA). The YTDA planned and reconstructed the temple and the work started in April 2016.\u201d \u201cA makeshift arrangement was made for Deity Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy in another temple in April 2016 and now on March 28, Maha Kumbha Samprokshana will take place as a part of the reopening of the refurbished temple complex,\u201d she added.<br><br>The architectural masterpiece has been constructed with 250,000 tons of black granite. The temple exhibits a fusion of both Dravidian and Kakatiyan styles of architecture. Anand Sai, the chief architect of the temple said, \u201cThe ground area of the temple has been increased from 11 acres to 17 acres. This is the biggest temple in the world that has been constructed completely with stone.\u201d The main attraction of the temple is Prahlada Charithra, the sculptural representation of the story of Bhaktha Prahlada from birth to the killing of Hiranyakashyapa. The Prahlada Charithra is constructed with gold.<br><br>More on the Yadadri temple at \u201csource\u201d.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/telangana-cm-kcr-to-inaugurate-yadadri-temple-today\/891386\/\n\">https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/telangana-cm-kcr-to-inaugurate-yadadri-temple-today\/891386\/<br><\/a><br>see also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telugu360.com\/how-telanganas-yadadri-temple-transformed-into-architectural-marvel\/\">https:\/\/www.telugu360.com\/how-telanganas-yadadri-temple-transformed-into-architectural-marvel\/<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TELANGANA, INDIA, March 28, 2022 (The Print): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Monday will inaugurate the newly reconstructed,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18312,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions\/18312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}