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Shri Atma Vallabh Jain Smarak

Svetambara Jain temple and memorial on GT Karnal Road, Delhi, honouring Acharya Vijay Vallabh Suri

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01 — The story

The story

Shri Atma Vallabh Jain Smarak, also called Vallabh Smarak Jain Mandir Tirth, is a Svetambara Jain temple and memorial on GT Karnal Road in Delhi, completed in 1989. It honours Acharya Vijay Vallabh Suri, a reformer and educationist known as Punjab Kesari, who founded schools across several states, backed the freedom movement and the use of khadi, and helped many people reach India safely from Gujranwala in 1947.

The main hall, domed inside with a stepped roof outside, was designed in traditional Jain architecture. Its principal image is the 12th Tirthankara, Vasupujya Swami, set with Munisuvrat Swami, Rishabhdev and Parshvanath in a four-faced arrangement. In the Guru Mandir, a circular hall 64 feet wide and 84 feet high, ten panels of three-dimensional stonework tell the Acharya's life. A museum below holds murals, artefacts and his personal belongings, such as clothes, utensils and an inkwell. The complex also has a library of manuscripts, an institute of Indology, lodgings and a dining hall, and since 2021 a hospital for injured birds.

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02 — About

About Shri Atma Vallabh Jain Smarak

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Where it is

Central Delhi, Delhi (NCT)

28.78° N 77.14° E