Viraat Ramayan Mandir

Viraat Ramayan Mandir (विराट रामायण मंदिर) is a under-construction Hindu temple complex located at twin villages of Kaithawalia and Bahuara near Chakia in East Champaran district, Bihar, India. It is being built with a cost of 5 billion rupees and is planned to be 405 ft high, double height of Angkor Wat Hindu Temple in Cambodia, and to have a hall that seats 20,000 people. The construction of the temple was scheduled to start in June 2015, but has been delayed following the Cambodia government's protest to the government of India which successfully won over Temple construction. Virat ramayan mandir's fully financed by mahavir mandir patna trust and client is tata company, company which given the civil work to suntech infra solutions. Company which is Delhi based company. Which work in previous in many Bihar project like in ntpc, fertilizer and iocl barauni projects successfully. This work is planning to finished in 2026.

Planning
The temple is inspired from Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia and Rameshvaram Ramanathan Temple and Madurai Meenakshi Sundareshvara Temple in Tamilnadu. The temple will comprise 18 shrines for various Hindu deities; Rama and Sita being the principal deities. The plan is spearheaded by Acharya Kishore Kunal.

Patna based, Mahavira Mandiram Trust first proposed the project, as Virata Angkor Wat Rama Sita Mandiram in Hajipur as model on Angkor Wat, the twin city of Patna. The temple trust acquired 161 acre of land in East Champaran district and therefore the earlier site of Hajipur had been abandoned.

In August 2012, after the concern and sentiment of the Cambodian Government, when Indian Government told Mahavira Mandiram Trust do not build exact reconstruction of Angkor Wat as it will collapse and destroy by weakness. The trust changed the name from Virata Angkor Wat Rama Sita Temple to Virata Ramayana Mandiram as Angkor Wat cannot be constructed back as it will breakdown in weakness and it is a Rama Sita Temple. On November 13, 2013, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar unveiled a model of the temple.

Location
It is located at a distance of 60 km from Vaishali and at a distance of 120 km from Patna, the capital of Bihar, 13 km from Chakia, and 96 km from Raxaul. Its exact location is at Janaki Nagar near Motihari in East Champaran district in North Bihar. It will be spread over an area of 125 acre at Bahuara-Kathwalia villages on Chakia-Kesariya road in East Champaran district. It will be 2800 ft in length, 1400 ft in width and 405 ft in height.

Temple Trust
Since 1987 Mahavir Mandir is managed by a trust composed of 11 members. This trust is Registered under Bihar Hindu Religious Trust Act, 1950. At present the following people are in the trust committee:
 * Justice BN Agrawal retd. (President)
 * Acharya Kishore Kunal, retd. IPS (Secretary)
 * Justice Rajendra Prasad, retd. (Treasurer)
 * VS Dubey, retd. IAS
 * Ram Balak Mahto, Advocate General
 * Ram Sundar Das, former Chief Minister
 * Kashi Nath Mishra, former VC
 * Justice SN Jha, retd.
 * RK Shrivastava, retd. IAS
 * Mrs Mahashweta Maharathi, Bodh Gaya
 * Mahant Ramashray Das, Ayodhya