What I like most about the cities we live in is the
places we generally not aware about. Like the case of one of its own kind
Butterfly
Park of Thane, which is at stone throw distance from my place and I came to
knew about it a few months back only. Then there is this Pagoda – another one
of its own kind – world renowned and still not known to many city dwellers. We visited this place to take pictures and let me confirm it, we were stoned by the colors and the mystical sky (check out the
Photo Story at the bottom of the post)
Located at Northern most corner of the Megacity of
Mumbai, across the Gorai creek,
Global Vipassana Pagoda is a meditation hall
built out of gratitude to the Buddha, his teaching and the community of monks
practicing his teaching (
Wikipedia). The Pagoda is also known for being built on
the world's largest stone dome without any supporting pillars, at height of ~29
metres and external diameter 94.82-97.46 m. It is, thus, twice the size of the
Gol Gumbaz Dome in…
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