Wednesday 9 February 2011

A day out in london

Yesterday we took our class to Neasden in North london to visit the Hindu Temple it is the largest temple outside India, if you ever get the chance to visit you won't be disappointed it is an amazing building, it's rather like looking at a giant wedding cake, it's made of Italian marble most of which was carved in India and shipped here, we arrived in time for one of the daily prayer times which was lovely, the carving on the pillars has such fine detailing sadly we were not able to take photo's inside infact we couldn't even take in a bag, everything had to be locked away, obviously as a place of worship it is understandable not to want cameras flashing away all the time.I did take a couple of pics and some of these are from google.

The woodwork is all hand carved 




I hope your all enjoying your week Cate x

7 comments:

Vintage Tea Time said...

WOW!!

A Treasured Past said...

It sure is beautiful!

Elizabeth said...

Looks amazing!

Unknown said...

O wow its beautiful, It always amazes me how they can build these stunning buildings and detail in the carvings etc is true art. I ever new there was a temple like that here, i will make a note and maybe sometime in the future i will go. Thank you for sharing that with us, dee x

Unknown said...

looks amazing!

sylviesgarden said...

So beautiful and intricate.
x

Tabbyroo said...

What a lovely trip, I would like to visit Linda x