After Ram Lalla, ‘King Ram’: Ayodhya set for another consecration

Preparations are underway for the ceremony and those aware of the matter said it will be low-key as compared to the scale of the grand event held on January 22 last year. MORE THAN a year after the “pran pratishtha” ceremony of Ram Lalla, the grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya will see another consecration ceremony next month, The Indian Express has learnt. The event will mark Lord Ram as the King, and it will follow the installation of the Ram Durbar or royal court on the first floor of the temple later this month.

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The organizers are preparing for the ceremony, and those aware of the matter said they will keep it low-key compared to the grand event held on January 22 last year, which more than 8,000 people attended and Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over. The event will also mark a kind of finale to the temple construction, which started in 2020 after the Supreme Court verdict mandated the setting up of a committee to oversee the construction. Nripendra Misra, the former Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, currently heads the temple construction committee. He recently said that the committee will complete the construction of the temple complex by the end of this month.

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The authorities will complete the temple construction by April 15 and install the statues by April 30.

The construction team will complete the remaining work on the “parkota,” or the compound wall, before the end of this year. Mishra told reporters that the team will lay about 20,000 cubic feet of stone in the temple and complete the construction by around April 15. The team will have all the statues in the temples, both inside and outside the rampart, by April 30, and they will install almost all of them between March 25 and April 15. Additionally, the team is installing a huge statue of Saint Tulsidas, who authored Ramcharitmanas, the most popular version of the Ramayana, in the complex.

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Approximately 20 acres of land will be beautified to remain in tune with nature. The builders have constructed the temple in the traditional Nagara style. Its length (east-west) is 380 feet; width is 250 feet and height is 161 feet. IThe architects and construction team supported the temple with a total of 392 pillars and 44 doors. When they held the pran pratishtha ceremony last year, they had completed the ground floor, which holds the sanctum sanctorum, while they had not yet completed the other floors, main spiral, and other elements in the complex. According to those in the know, the work is now 90 per cent complete, and the entire complex — including the parkota — will be complete this year.