Unique Ganesh pandals in India, decorated with coins, golds and notes
The festival of Ganesh Chaturthi will be starting on September 19 and the whole country has been gearing up for 10 days of continuous celebration. There is not limit to creativity when it comes to making the Ganesh idol or decorating the Pandal. This year has been good for India with the success of G20 and Chandrayaan and this is reflected in the Ganpati Idols as well.
In a strange decoration in Karnataka, real currency notes are used in for decorating the temple. Sri Sathya Ganapathy Temple in Bengaluru's JP Nagar has spent lacks on decoration by actually using lacks. The temple is decorated with currency notes of Rs10,20,50,100 and even Rs500 and coins. it actual cost of decorating went unto 2.18 crore for currency notes and Rs70 lakh worth coins.
Currency Notes used for decorating Ganesh Pandal
Coins used for decorating Pandal
According to the temple trustee it took three months to complete decorations, and all the currency notes and money will be given back to the ones who have donated it. The temple has used eco friendly thins to decorate the temple such as raw banana and corn.
Likewise, Chandrayaan -3 became the theme of one the Ganesh Pandal's in Kolkata where the model of Chandrayaan -3 is placed above the Pandal.
Kolkata Ganesh Pandal
In Mumbai, one of the Ganesh Idols was decorated with gold. The GSB Seva Mandal installed a huge Ganesh Idol for the festival. They decorated the Ganesh idol with 69kgs of Gold and 336kgs of silver for the huge amount of 360crore rupees which is apparently half of what was used in the Chandrayaan -3 mission. Devotees try to be as creative as they can be with the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. The festival is mostly celebrated in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Karnataka, but the whole country as started celebrating the festival with utmost joy.
GSB Ganesh Idol
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