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==History==
[[File:Laxminarayan Dev Vadtal Mandir.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Shree [[LaxmiNarayan Dev]] with Ranchhodrai, Embraced & Installed by Swaminarayan himself at this temple]]
[[File:Vadtal Temple.jpg|right|thumb|280px|The temple lit up for a festival]]
The town of Vadtal is also known as Vadtal Swaminarayan. The [[temple]] here is in the shape of a lotus, with nine domes in the inner temple. The land for this shrine was donated by [[Joban Pagi]],  a devotee of Swaminarayan. The temple was ordered by [[swaminarayan]] and  constructed under the supervision of S.G. [[Brahmanand Swami]].

Devotees from Vadtal had gone to Shreeji Maharaj on the day of Nirjala [[Ekadashi]] to meet him in [[Gadhada]]. On the next day - the twelfth day of the bright half of Jyestha - they requested to Swaminarayan to construct a [[Krishna]] Mandir in Vadtal. Shreeji Maharaj commanded his disciple S.G  Brahmanand Swami to temporarily leave the construction of the [[Muli, Gujarat|Muli]] temple and proceed with a team of saints to plan and supervise the construction of [[Vadtal]] temple. The construction of this temple was completed within 15 months and the idols of [[Lakshmi Narayan|Laxminarayan Dev]] were installed by Swaminarayan himself on 3 November 1824, amidst chants of [[vedic]] hymns and devotional fervor of the installation ceremony. In the middle of the temple, he installed the idols of  Laxminarayan dev and  Ranchhod. To the right, there are the idols of  Dharmdev and  Bhaktimata and  Vasudev. and to the left, Swaminarayan installed the idols of  [[Radha Krishna|RadhaKrishna]] and Harikrishna Maharaj.

Besides the Gods sitting in the central temple, in the left wall of the worship-place, were installed the form of Dakshinavart Shankh (Southern-sea conch) and Shaligrama (icon of Vishnu) and in the inner dome, there are the stone-idols of the ten incarnations of god, besides the idols of Vishnu resting on the seat of Sheshnaag (heavenly snake).