Snippets of Information
LOCATIONS - MEMORIALS
Memorials built across India in honour of Mahatma Gandhi, The Father of our nation
* 11 Feb 2022
Statue of Unity, is the 597-foot towering monument of Vallabhbhai Patel (freedom fighter, the first deputy prime minister and home minister of independent India) in Gujarat
It was designed by Indian sculptor Ram V. Sutar, constructed by Larsen
& Toubro and was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 31
October 2018 on the 143rd anniversary of Patel's birth.
*3 Sep 2021
Vivekananda Rock Memorial, an architectural wonder with a great
historical and religious significance was inaugurated in the year of
1970 in honour of the great saint and leader of India, Swami Vivekananda
who has visited Kanyakumari in 1892, a few days before leaving for
Chicago for World Religious Conference. He had then visited the rock and
meditated here for two days....Read more
Source: kanyakumaritourism.in
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2 Aug 2021
Vijay Ghat is the memorial to Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904-1966)
India's second Prime Minister . Vijay means victory and his memorial was
named after the victory he led India to in the 1965 war against
Pakistan. Shastri died in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (then Soviet Union) on 11
January 1966, one day after signing a peace treaty to end the 1965
Indo-Pakistan War.
Ekta Sthal - Zail Singh (7th President of India)
Karma Bhumi - Shankar Dayal Sharma (9th President of India)
Kissan Ghat - Charan SIngh (5th Prime Minister of India)
Samta Sthal - Jagjivan Ram (4th Deputy Prime Minster of India
Shakti Sthal - Indira Gandhi (3rd Prime Minister of India)
Shantivan - Jawaharlal Nehru (1st Prime Minister of India)
Veer Bhumi - Rajiv Gandhi (6th Prime Minister of India)
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Jul 2021
Chaitya Bhoomi is a memorial to Dr. B R Ambedkar,
Chief architect of Indian Constitution besides Dadar Chowpatty beach, Mumbai. Earlier known as Dadar
Chowpatty it began to be known as Chaitya Bhoomi after Babasaheb
Ambedkar was cremated here after his death on 6 December 1956.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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