Industrialist Biswanath Patnaik, who hails from Odisha, has pledged Rs 250 crore to a UK charity fund to make Britain’s first Jagannath temple, reported Occasions of India.
That is stated to be the largest ever donation made by an Indian businessman to create a temple in a overseas land.
Patnaik, who’s the chairman and founding father of the funding agency FinNest Group of Corporations, made this pledge to the Shree Jagannatha Society UK (SJSUK) through the UK’s first Jagannath Conference held on Akshaya Trithiya on Sunday (April 23).
As per the report, Arjun Kar, MD of FinNest and a principal donor has already dedicated Rs 70 crore for the shopping for of practically 15 acres of land within the outskirts of London. The temple development’s first section is claimed to be accomplished by the top of 2024, TOI reported.
Dr Sahadev Swain, chair of the Sree Jagannatha Society UK stated he’s assured that the Jagannath temple in London will spotlight the Jagannath tradition in Europe and it’ll entice an enormous variety of vacationers from the world over.
The Shree Jagannatha Society UK was created three years in the past on the auspicious day of Akshaya Trithiya and it’s registered with the Charity Fee.
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