KESHAV MANDAPAM
The Keshav Mandapam in Akshardham mandir is a grand, ornately carved dome. The pillars in the beginning are four-sided, then eight-sided and finally thirty-two-sided. In the ancient shilpa shastras the pillars are called the ‘Swastik Sthambh’.
The pillars in the Keshav Mandapam are decorated with 24 ornate murtis of Lord Keshav and others.
In accordance with the ancient Panchratra Shastra of India emphasis has been laid on the 24 revered forms of the supreme God in the Bhakti Sampradays. These forms are known as Keshav or Chaturvyuh.
The Chaturvyuh forms have special names with respect to the weapons they wield. Their murtis are enshrined in ancient and modern mandirs of India. However, nowhere have they been established in one place as per the pure shilpa shastra tradition. Its twenty-four forms on the pillars in the Keshav Mandapam are the first ever in India.
The establishment of God’s Keshav or Chaturvyuh forms is a revival of a tradition that has nearly faded away.
Height: 72 feet. External Elevation: 88 ft

GHANSHYAM MANDAPAM
In this Mandapam, resting on eight pillars, lies a 38 ft wide saucer-shaped dome. It is a unique architectural feat.
The dome has a peacock design with a delicate murti of the child-form of Bhagwan Swaminarayan at its center.
The pillars have beautiful carvings on the childhood incidents of Bhagwan Swaminarayan.
The Mandapam gets its name from Ghanshyam – the childhood name of Bhagwan Swaminarayan.
Height: 32 ft.


LILA MANDAPAM
Like the Keshav Mandapam the Lila Mandapam has an ornately decorated dome. On its four-faced pillars are the carvings on the life stories of Bhagwan Swaminarayan as a child, teenager and later years.
Height: 72 ft. External Elevation: 88 ft

NEELKANTH MANDAPAM
At the tender age of eleven Bhagwan Swaminarayan renounced his home and became known as Neelkanth Varni, performing severe austerities and a pilgrimage of the whole of India on foot for seven years. The fascinating stories of Neelkanth have been intricately carved on the eight-sided pillars and saucer-shaped ornate dome. At the dome center lies the delicate, beautiful murti of Neelkanth Varni performing austerities at the pilgrim place of Muktinath in the Himalayas, Nepal.
Height: 32 ft. External Elevation: 88 ft

SMRUTI MANDAPAM
From 1781 to 1830 our earth was blessed and honored by the holy feet of Bhagwan Swaminarayan. The birth of God was not a legend or fable, but a divine fact and truth. Even today, his revered memorabilia inspire countless with joy and peace of mind.
The Smruti Mandapam of Bhagwan Swaminarayan includes his footprints in kumkum, hair, mala, clothes and other things that are 200 years old.
Height: 72 ft. External Elevation: 88 ft.

SAHAJANAND MANDAPAM
Resting on eight-sided ornate pillars is a saucer-shaped dome in whose center lies a handsome stone murti of Bhagwan Swaminarayan (or Sahajanand Swami) seated beneath a sprawling neem tree. He became Sahajanand Swami Maharaj at the age of only twenty-one and launched his divine mission of spreading dharma. At the age of twenty-five he initiated 500 powerful, scholarly and pious paramhansas. As a tribute to Sahajanand Swami’s great paramhansas, the Mandapams and pillars of Akshardham have 500 marble murtis of the paramhansas.
Height: 32 ft. External Elevation: 88 ft.

BHAKTA MANDAPAM
Bhagwan Swaminarayan, through his divine influence, elevated countless people, from the downtrodden to the Brahmin classes, to the exalted spiritual state of God-realization. During his lifetime, Bhagwan Swaminarayan enlightened 2 million followers in Gujarat with his divine knowledge and light of Sanatan Dharma. Like the great devotees, sages and rishis of India one also finds the murtis of noble devotees of Bhagwan Swaminarayan in this Mandapam.
Height: 72 ft. External Elevation: 88 ft.

PURUSHOTTAM MANDAPAM
Akshardham is the divine abode of God. In this Mandapam, one finds the beautiful marble murtis of Bhagwan Swaminarayan with his choicest devotee, Aksharbrahma Gunatitanand Swami and divine devotees (muktas). Every layer of the dome has sculptures of the muktas residing in Akshardham.
Height: 32 ft. External Elevation: 88 ft.