The Laxminarayan Temple, Birla Temple Delhi India c1945

The Laxmi Narayan Temple , Birla Temple, New Delhi, India c1945.
Current structure built 1939 in New Delhi, India.
The construction dedicated to Laxmi Narayan started in 1933,
built by industrialist and philanthropist, Baldeo Das Birla of the Birla
family, thus, the temple is also known as Birla Temple, locally.
The famous temple is accredited to have been inaugurated by
Mahatma Gandhi in 1939.
At that time, Mahatma Gandhi kept a condition that the temple
would not be restricted to the Hindus and people from every caste
would be allowed inside.
(info from Wikipedia).
Image scanned from 8cm x 5cm 'daylight frame' contact print made in 1945