Gandhi Memorial, Cape Comorin, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India

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This is a Memorial to Mahatma Gandhi (Father of the Nation) who had visited Kanyakumari in 1925 and 1937. It is constructedat a place on the seashore, near to Kumari Amman Temple, where his ashes were kept for public darshan before immersion in the sea on February 12, 1948. The Mandapam is built in Orrisa style of architecture and designed in such a way that on his birthday, 2 October, the rays of the sun, through a hole on the roof, falls exactly on the place where the urn was kept.

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Location: Gandhi Memorial, Cape Comorin, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India
Photo credit: © John Bennet / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: architecture, cape, comorin, father, gandhi, india, kanyakumari, mandapam, memorial, nadu, nation, orrisa, style, tamil