Temples
There are many temples in bhuj city. Among them hatkeshvar temple, ma aashapura temple are really the extra ordinary. These temples are the oldest temples in bhuj. Shree swaminarayan mandir is also same. Shree swaminarayan mandir is the best one in swaminarayan Sampraday and also in history. Even though in bhuj city the Shree Swaminarayan temple is world famous as it is completely renovated. Senior devotees Gangarambhai, Sundarjibhai and others from the Bhuj region of Kutch went to Gadhada where God Swaminarayan and the great saints like brahmanand swami, Muktanand swami were in festival calibration. During this festival, the devotees of Bhuj met God Swaminarayan and requested him to construct a temple in Bhuj. God Swaminarayan asked Vaishnavananand Swami to proceed with a team of the saints to Bhuj and construct a temple. Vaishnavanand Swami and the accompanying saints went to Bhuj in 1822, camped at the place neighbouring the land of temple drew plans of the temple, complex, executed the plans with minute details and within a short span of one year, they built a temple abode of NarNarayan Dev. God Swaminarayan had graced this temple in the western belt of India and had himself installed the idols of Narnarayan dev and his own form - Harikrishna Maharaj in central sanctum sanctorum of the temple. Besides these manifestations of Gods at the central dome there under the eastern dome, are seated RadhaKrishna Dev, Harikrishna Maharaj and in the western dome Ghanshyam Maharaj.
