Buddha Vihar (Birla Mandir), Delhi

Situated on Mandir Marg, New Delhi, this Buddhist temple is built by the Birla family along with the Laxminarayan Temple (popularly known as the ‘Birla Mandir’) in the year 1939.

Land for the temple was gifted by the British Viceroy of India to the Maha Bodhi Society, a South Asian Buddhist society founded by Sri Lankan Buddhist leader Anagarika Dharmapala and the famous British Poet and Journalist Sir Edwin Arnold, who is most known for his work ‘The Light of Asia’.

The foundation stone was laid by K. Yonewaza, the Japanese Consul General in India in 1931 and was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1939.