The Dattatreya Mandir in Carapichaima was opened on the 9th June 2003 when the eighty five foot tall Hanuman murti was consecrated and inaugurated as well as a small Hunuman shrine below the statue, the newly built idol of Dattatreya and Anagha Devi, Raja Rajeshwari, Ganapati and Shiva Linga.<\/p>\n
The Hanuman murti, the largest outside of India, is built according to the Dravidian style of architecture of South India.<\/p>\n
Two grey elephants provide water for devotees to wash their feet before entering the main mandir. At the entrance is a dome with the seven stages of graded architecture, with numerous figures of musicians playing various types of instruments in seven different colours.<\/p>\n
The construction of the mandir was carried out by a supervising architect and masons brought from India to do the artwork and to build the Hanuman murti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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