Press Trust of India

Hyderabad

The world’s first 3D printed Hindu temple is being built in Telangana.

Situated within Charvitha Meadows, a gated villa community at Burugupally in Siddipet, the 3D printed temple is a three-part structure being built in an area of 3,800 square feet by city-based Apsuja Infratech.

Apsuja Infratech has tied up with Simpliforge Creations, a 3D-printed construction company, for the project.

“The three sanctums or garbhas within the structure represent a ‘modak’, dedicated to Lord Ganesha; a Shivalay, a square abode devoted to Lord Shankar; and a lotus-shaped home for Goddess Parvati,” said Hari Krishna Jeedipalli, MD, Apsuja Infratech.

Incidentally in March, Simpliforge Creations had together with Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, built India’s first prototype bridge in a little under two hours. The team is now working on the lotus-shaped temple dedicated to Goddess Parvati.

“With the Shivalay and the modak completed, phase II comprising the lotus and the tall spires (gopurams) are underway,” Jeedipalli added.

Despite being a challenge, the dome-shaped modak, which required the team to get innovative, took the team only about six hours to print it over a span of ten days, Gandhi said.

“We are hoping that what we learnt from the ‘modak’ will let us finish the ‘lotus’ earlier than that,” said Gandhi. “But we have already proved with our Ganesha temple that shapes that are almost impossible to attain with conventional techniques can be done easily using 3D technology. Now, lotus will prove again to the world the edge that 3D-printing will offer to the construction industry when it comes to free-form structures,” Gandhi added.