Matrimandir: Hymn to the Builders of the Future

— Dominique Darr

Price: Rs 1300 Pages: 212 Dimensions (in cms): 30x24 ISBN: 978-2-7466-7417-2	Hard Cover
Publisher: Centre d'Art, Auroville
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This book of photographs and brief accompanying texts by photographic reporter Dominique Darr chronicles the construction of the Matrimandir from its conception in 1965 to its official inauguration in 2008. After the introduction, the photographs are organised into sections, with introductory texts in French and English, that follow a chronology: the beginnings of Auroville in 1968; the excavation of the Matrimandir's foundation, completed in January 1972; the emerging concrete structure with its four pillars; the participants, skilled and unskilled, who laboured on the site; the shape of the geodesic dome and its covering of golden discs; the area surrounding the Matrimandir; the inner chamber lit by a ray of the sun falling on a crystal; and the meditation rooms around the base of the structure.