Shri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple - Olbury Birmingham England 271213

Shri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple - Olbury Birmingham England 271213

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The Shri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple is one of the largest temples for Deity Shri Venkateswara (Balaji) in Europe. It is on the Dudley Road East, A457 behind the Meadows School in Trividale, West Midlands, England on the border between Tipton and Oldbury. It was designed in the style of the Tirupati Venkateswara Temple in Tirupati, India which is the second busiest and richest and richest religious centre in the world after the Vatican. 

It opened on 23rd August 2006 and was consecrated in a five day ceremony between 23rd and 27th August. The Vishnu incarnation Lord Venkareswara is the presiding deity, with two other deities either side of him in the main temple - his wife Padmavati , an incarnation of Vishnu's wife Lakshmi and Hanuman the monkey God featuring in the Ramayana epic.

Outsided the two small Shiva temples to his sons Ganash and Murugan, along wiht a hall for Navagraha or small astrological representations of nine celestrial bodies. 

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