The Jain temple of Antwerp is located in the municipality

Wilrijk Wilrijk (; former, original spelling: ''Wilrijck'') is a district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Belgian province of Antwerp. Wilrijk had been a separate municipality before January 1, 1983; the enlarged municipality of Antwerp wa ...

History

The building has a surface area of 1,000 m² and has been in use since 2010. Construction started in 1990 in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. After it was completed in 2000, the building was dismantled piece by piece, shipped to Belgium and rebuild on its current location. The white marble design is inspired by traditional Jain Temples.

About temple

It is the biggest Jain temple outside of India. The temple houses an information centre about

Jainism Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion. Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of ''Dharma''), with the first in the current time cycle bein ...

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* * Chris De Lauwer, "Een Indiase tempel in België", in: Idesbald Goddeeris (red.), ''Het wiel van Ashoka. Belgisch-Indiase contacten in historisch perspectief'', 2013, p. 233-240

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