US to get new Shirdi Temple soon

New Jersey, July 06: Here is a new Saibaba temple would be built soon in the area of 25 acres in New Jersey of US, which was resembling Shirdi Saibaba temple in Maharashtra.

While speaking to media reporters on Wednesday, Sai Datta Peetam founder president Shankarmanchi Raghu Sharma said that the temple would be an exact replica and will come up with same measurement and design as in Shirdi and also have a Sai Samadhi Mandir, Dwaraka Maaye, Chaavadi, Lendi gardens, Prasadalay, hospital, and education centre.

There are lakhs of Saibaba temples across the world including in America. But this is the first time a temple would be built with all facilities like the one at Shirdi in Maharashtra.

The idol would be installed on Vijayadasami day in 2018, marking the 100 years of Saibaba having taken samadhi, he said. To raise funds, Raghu Sarma said he had traveled across 45 States in the US in a special bus.

Shankarmanchi Raghu Sharma, who was a chief priest in Saibaba temple in Dilsukhnagar earlier, was taken to the US by Oncologist Dr. Nori Dattatreyadu.