List of Swaminarayan temples
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Swaminarayan, the founder of the Swaminarayan Sampraday, established temples, known as mandirs (Devnagari: मन्दिर), as part of his philosophy of theism and deity worship.
He constructed nine temples in the following cities; Ahmedabad, Bhuj, Muli, Vadtal, Junagadh, Dholera, Dholka, Gadhpur, and Jetalpur. In these temples he installed images of various Hindu gods, such as Nara-Narayana, Lakshmi Narayana, Radha Krishna, Radha Ramana, Revti-Baldevji, and Madan Mohan. Each of these nine original temples fall either under the Nar Narayan Dev Gadi, Ahmedabad or the Lakshmi Narayan Dev Gadi, Vadtal depending on their geographical location.
One of the most prominent features of the heritage of Swaminarayan Sampradaya is temple architecture. All of the temples constructed during Swaminarayan's life show some form of Krishna, and all temples since have such murtis. In Vadtal, he consecrated his own murti known as Harikrushna Maharaj. In the temples of the dioceses of Ahmedabad and Vadtal, they are predominantly a central altar or a shrine. Human forms are predominant but for a known exception of a Hanuman temple at Sarangpur, where Hanuman is the central figure. The temples have accommodations for sadhus built next to them.
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