Muktidham is a marble temple complex honouring various

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gods. It is a popular tourist attraction situated in the

Nashik Road Nashik Road (sometimes referred to as Nasik Road) is a suburb of Nashik that contains the city's railway station. The name 'Nashik Road' was originally used for the town surrounding the station (about 8 km or 5 miles southwest from the heart ...

suburb of the city of

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in the State of

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. It is privately operated through a trust and was built through a generous donation by the late Mr. J.D. Chauhan-Bytco, a local industrialist.Muktidham temple is situated in Nashik Road. Built by Late Shri JayramBhai Bytco, is magnificent piece of architecture, made of kota stone and marble from Makran in Rajastan, and by Rajastani sculptors
Official Website of Nashik District The temple was founded in the year 1971. It has replicas of 12

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s, which have been built as per dimension of original deities and have been sanctified by sending them to their respective pilgrimage centers. Further, there is a temple dedicated to Lord

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in the Muktidham complex. The walls of Krishna temple has paintings depicting scenes from life of Krishna and Mahabharata. These were painted by a noted painter Raghubir Mulgaonkar, whose services were employed by the founder of Muktidham, Jairambhai Chauhan. Also unique to this temple are eighteen chapters of Geeta written on the walls. The temple is made with marble from

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, and by

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sculptors. Apart from the replicas of all the twelve Jyotirlingas, temple of

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there are also idols of all major Hindu Gods and Goddesses like

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. Muktidham is amongst the tourist attraction of town. Thousands of Hindu devotees visit Muktidham Temple during

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. Further, the complex also houses a

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, which can accommodate at least 200 pilgrims.

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