{"id":26065,"date":"2022-10-21T11:25:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T05:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akshardham.com\/gujarat\/?page_id=26065"},"modified":"2025-10-18T11:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:04:04","slug":"festival-of-lights-swaminarayan-akshardham","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/akshardham.com\/gujarat\/festival-of-lights-swaminarayan-akshardham\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Of Lights, Swaminarayan Akshardham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-md-12 column topmargin\">\r\n    <div class=\"jumbotron \"><h1>The Festival of Lights at Swaminarayan Akshardham, Gandhinagar<\/h1><\/div>\r\n     \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"container \">\r\n<br\/>\r\n<div class=\"col-md-12 column topmargin\" >        \r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1349\" height=\"480\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ngZNCLfGocU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Swaminarayan Akshardham - Announcement\" src=\"https:\/\/akshardham.com\/gujarat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/festivalOfLight2025.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive noborder\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n<br\/>\r\n<p>The holy festival of Diwali celebrates the attainment of enlightenment and freedom from the darkness of ignorance. Every year, for the past 33 years, Swaminarayan Akshardham has celebrated this auspicious occasion by lighting 10,000 traditional lamps. This majestic Festival of Lights inspires every human being to illuminate their life by lighting the lamps of virtues such as truth, kindness, non-violence, righteousness, spiritual knowledge, worldly detachment, devotion to God, and others.<\/p>\r\n<p>This year, too, visitors can experience and be inspired by the decorative Festival of Lights including glow garden during the Diwali and Hindu New Year period from Monday, 20 October to Sunday, 26 October 2025.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><b>On Monday, 20 October 2025, the Akshardham Complex will remain open, and visitors can experience the Exhibitions, Water Show and other attractions.<\/b><\/div>\r\n \r\n<br\/>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Festival of Lights at Swaminarayan Akshardham, Gandhinagar The holy festival of Diwali celebrates the attainment of enlightenment and freedom from the darkness of ignorance. Every year, for the past 33 years, Swaminarayan Akshardham has celebrated this auspicious occasion by lighting 10,000 traditional lamps. This majestic Festival of Lights inspires every human being to illuminate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-right\"> <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/akshardham.com\/gujarat\/festival-of-lights-swaminarayan-akshardham\/\">Read More<span class=\"glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-right\"><\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26065","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akshardham.com\/gujarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akshardham.com\/gujarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akshardham.com\/gujarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akshardham.com\/gujarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akshardham.com\/gujarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26065"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/akshardham.com\/gujarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31508,"href":"https:\/\/akshardham.com\/gujarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26065\/revisions\/31508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akshardham.com\/gujarat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}