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on top of it all

this'll floor ya
The view from what is now the main Temple entrance off the cloister -
Ajahn Siripanya inspects progress.

 

 With the site properly sanctified, construction work began in earnest with the first foundation excavations getting under way in April of 1995. A seemingly endless stream of concrete trucks filled the massive excavations and slowly a general outline of the Temple floor became apparent.

wooden it
The first delivery of oak from the workshop in Wiltshire.
 

 

 

With the floor and supporting brick walls completed, the first deliveries of the timber superstructure, manufactured from green oak, arrived at Amaravati.