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Architects: Fariborz SahbaLocation: New Delhi, IndiaArchitect: Fariborz SahbaReferences: Fariborz Sahba Project Year: 1986
From the architect. Popularly known as the Lotus Temple, the Bahá'í House ofWorship in New Delhi, India is a house of worship that was designed by Iranianarchitect Fariborz Sahba and completed in 1986.
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The temple is one of eight Bahá'í House of Worship facilities in the world and haswelcomed over 70 million visitors since its completion, making it one of the mostfrequented architectural landmarks in the world. From a denominational standpoint,the Lotus temple is open to all practitioners regardless of religious affiliation andfunctions more as a gathering place of worship to interested visitors.
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On first glance, there are notable similarities between the Mother Temple of the Indiansubcontinent and Jorn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House in keeping with Bahá'íscripture, the Lotus temple is organized as a ninesided circular structure that iscomprised of twentyseven “leaves” (marbleclad freestanding concrete slabs),organized in groups of three on each of the temple’s nine sides. The structure isinspired by the lotus flower and is arguably one of the most visible instances ofbiomimicry in contemporary architecture.
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The aforementioned “leaves” are integral to the organization of the space and areclassified into three categories: entrance leaves, outer leaves, and inner leaves. Theentrance leaves (nine in total), demarcate the entrance on each of the nine sides of thecomplex. The outer leaves serves as the roof to the ancillary spaces, complemented bythe inners leaves which form the main worship space. These inner leaves approach, butdo not meet at the tip of the worship space and are capped with a dramatic glass andsteel skylight.
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The temple is constructed primarily of concrete and clad in Grecian marble, resulting inthe Lotus Temple’s pristine white exterior while the interior of the structure is revealedin true Expressionist fashion, with the precast ribbed roof exposed in the worshipspaces.
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Funded almost entirely by private donations, the structure is sited on a magnificent 26acre landscape including native vegation and a series of nine ponds surrounding thetemple. Appropriately, the Lotus Temple and Sahba have been the recipient ofmultiple international design awards, included an award in excellence from theInstituation of Structural Engineers (1987), a special citation from the IlluminatingEngineering Society of North America (1988), designation as one of 100 canonicalworks by the Architectural Society of China (2000), and an architect award from theGlobArt Academy in Vienna (2000).
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With a capacity of 2,500 practitioners, this seminal architectural work is wellequippedto be a global architectural masterpiece for years to come.
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