Sompura Salat

Sompura Salat are a Hindu stone-worker community of Gujarat, They are also found in southern Rajasthan, specially in the Mewar region.

[3][2] The community is vegetarian in diet and also avoids eating onions, garlic, white cucumber and lentils.

While their center of activity is in Gujarat and Rajasthan, they now undertake temple architecture in different parts of India, as well as overseas.

[8] He was asked by Ashok Singhal, chief of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, to design and build the Ram Janmabhoomi temple.

[10] The world's largest Ram Temple, a proposed replica of Angkor Wat to be built in Champaran, Bihar, is being designed by Piyush Sompura.

They also designed the Kirti Stumbh at Hutheesing Wadi in Ahmedabad, Oswal Jain Temple in Nairobi, Kenya, Jain Center, Leicester, UK,[13] Atma Vallabh Smarak, Delhi, and the Global Vipassana Pagoda at Gorai in northwest Mumbai.