The ball was set rolling for the much-awaited construction of Shri Ram Temple in Ayodhya after, Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra trusts general secretary Champat Rai said that the construction of the Ram mandir at Ayodhya would begin after September 17
The construction is likely to begin after the fortnight-long ‘pitru paksha’ ends, pitru Paksh refers to the period when Hindus express gratitude to their ancestors.
Rai asserted that the country’s leading construction company Larsen and Toubro is all set to lay the foundation of the grand temple, which would come up in a 12,879 sq meter area on the Ram Janmabhoomi campus.
The company is carrying out construction without charging any fee. Around 1,200 pillars will be laid around 100 feet below the surface to prepare the temple’s foundation. These pillars will be of stone and no iron will be used. Again on these pillars, another layer of foundation will be laid.
The construction company has sourced machines from Mumbai and is in the process of sourcing machines from Hyderabad. To start with, the Trust is expected to engage around 100 laborers to lay the foundation of the temple.
However, due to the pandemic, the laborers will be tested and thermal-scanned before allowing entry into the Ram Janmabhoomi campus.
The proposed Ram mandir will be 360 feet long, 235 feet wide and 161 feet high and will have five domes.
According to the Trust, the temple’s foundation will be laid by using modern techniques so that it could be preserved for over 1,500 years and its structure for 1,000 years.
On November 9, 2019, the Supreme Court had ruled in favor of Ram mandir ending the decades-old Ayodhya title dispute. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the temple during the groundbreaking Bhoomi pujan of the mandir in Ayodhya last month.
