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Viraat Ramayan Mandir
Viraat Ramayan Mandir
विराट रामायण मंदिर
	Plan of Viraat Ramayan Mandir
Religion
Affiliation	Hinduism
District	East Champaran
Deity	Rama and Sita
Festivals	Rama Navami • Deepavali • Vijayadashami
Governing body	Mahavir Mandir Trust, Patna
Status	Under construction
Location
Location	Kaithawalia, NH-227A, Chakia-Kesariya road, East Champaran, Bihar
State	Bihar
Country	India
	Location in Bihar
Geographic coordinates	26°21′54″N 84°52′23″E / 26.365°N 84.873°E
Architecture
Creator	Mahavira Mandiram Trust, Patna
Completed	2026 (expected)
Site area	161 acres
Website
	viraatramayanmandir.net

Viraat Ramayan Mandir is a under-construction Hindu temple, located at twin villages of Kaithawalia and Bahuara near Chakia in East Champaran district, Bihar, India.^[1] It is being built with a cost of 5 rupees^[2] and is planned to be 123 metres (405 ft) high, double height of Angkor Wat Hindu Temple in Cambodia,^[3] and to have a hall that seats 20,000 people.^[4] Virat ramayan mandir's fully financed by mahavir mandir patna trust and client is tata company, company which given the civil work to suntech infra solutions.

Company which is Delhi based company. Which work in previous in many Bihar project like in ntpc , fertilizer and iocl barauni projects successfully. This work is planning to finished in 2026. The construction of the temple was scheduled to start in June 2015, but has been delayed following the Cambodia government's protest to the government of India which successfully won over Temple construction.^[5]

Planning

The temple is inspired from Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia and Rameshvaram Ramanathan Temple and Madurai Meenakshi Sundareshvara Temple in Tamilnadu. The temple will comprise 18 shrines for various Hindu deities; Rama and Sita being the principal deities.^[6] The plan is spearheaded by Acharya Kishore Kunal.

Patna based, Mahavira Mandiram Trust first proposed the project, as Virata Angkor Wat Rama Sita Mandiram in Hajipur as model on Angkor Wat,^[7] the twin city of Patna. The temple trust acquired 65 hectares (161 acres) of land in East Champaran district^[8] and therefore the earlier site of Hajipur had been abandoned.

In August 2012, after the concern and sentiment of the Cambodian Government,^[9] when Indian Government told Mahavira Mandiram Trust do not build exact reconstruction of Angkor Wat as it will collapse and destroy by weakness.^[10] The trust changed the name from Virata Angkor Wat Rama Sita Temple to Virata Ramayana Mandiram as Angkor Wat cannot be constructed back as it will breakdown in weakness and it is a Rama Sita Temple. On November 13, 2013, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar unveiled a model of the temple.^[11]

Location

It is located at a distance of 60 km from Vaishali and at a distance of 120 km from Patna, the capital of Bihar, 13 km from Chakia, and 96 km from Raxaul. Its exact location is at Janaki Nagar near Motihari in East Champaran district in North Bihar. It will be spread over an area of 51 hectares (125 acres)^[12] at Bahuara-Kathwalia villages on Chakia-Kesariya road in East Champaran district.^[13] It will be 850 metres (2,800 ft) in length, 430 metres (1,400 ft) in width and 123 metres (405 ft) in height.^[8]^[14]

Temple Trust

Since 1987 Mahavir Mandir is managed by a trust composed of 11 members. This trust is Registered under Bihar Hindu Religious Trust Act, 1950. At present the following people are in the trust committee:^[15]