ISKCON Detroit Temple (Detroit, Michigan)

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This is a 22,000 square foot home situation on four acres of gardens. However, it has only two bedrooms. The interior floors are rosewood parquet. There is black walnut paneling with numerous marble columns and several walls covered in hand-painted leather. At one point, 200 craftsmen were employed to build this house, many of them apparently brought from Europe for this purpose. The master bathroom is done in lapis blue Pewabic tile. Seventy-five ounces of gold and 140 ounces of silver were used for the interior trim. No one cultural style was used in the interior. Rather the style varies from room to room. Shortly after moving in, Lawrence Fisher and his close neighbor Gar Wood, who lived in a nearby mansion, had a canal dug so that their homes could be directly linked to the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair. Fisher than build a boathouse so that he could have indoor parking for his 104-foot yacht. Apparently, he could go from his living quarters to his yacht without going outside.

Inspired by the spiritual teachings of His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Alfred Brush Ford(great-grandson of Henry Ford) and Elisabeth Reuther Dickmeyer(daughter of United Auto workers President, Walter Reuther) jointly purchased the Fisher Estate in 1975 as the site for the Bhaktivendanta Cultural Center.

The Bhaktivedanta Cultural Center features an extraordinary exhibit of India's timeless heritage with a magnificient traditional Vedic Temple and an elaborate multimedia presentation combining exquisite sculptures with state of the art audio visual technology. A fine art gallery displays classical and contemporary paintings and art objects illustrative of the enlightened teachings of Indian philosophical thought.

The twenty five foot high ceilings of the art gallery and grand ballroom, along with the meticulously restored residential rooms, offer a further glimpse of a splendor seldom seen today. Situated on 4 acres of formal gardens, adorned with pools, fountains and roving peacocks, the Bhaktivedanta Cultural Center stands as one of Detroit's most impressive and worthwhile attractions.

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