Jammu, Feb. 19 -- Conceived in 1967, the foundation stone of Adi Shankaracharya Temple at Katra was laid today at Katra by the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha who also announced a series of major initiatives for the development of Katra, including the setting up of an International Museum of Goddess.

The foundation-laying ceremony comes nearly six decades after the Shankaracharya temple project was first conceived in 1967, the officials said.

This state-of-the-art temple is another ambitious project conceived under the leadership of the LG, after a museum of goddesses comprising replicas and representations of major 'devi' pilgrimage sites from across India, which is also proposed to come up at Katra, the base camp of Mata Vaishno Devi ...