The Mohanbadi, located on the National Highway No. 8 Jaipur-Agra-Delhi Road, has tremendous sanctity for Jains. The beautiful complex is spread over a huge area of about 14 bighas. The complex has been built in the peaceful and sacred environment in the midst of Mother Nature in the green mountain range of Aravalli. This gigantic 108-foot high temple with gorgeous artistic creations was inspired by Jain Sadhvi Shree Dr. Maniprabha Shreeji Maharaj. She had conceptualised the idea of this temple in February, 1986, during her gracious presence near Birla Mandir in Jaipur. She had a perfect gorgeous vision of a wonderful Jain temple that could be seen by a common man. Her imaginary feelings were so strong about it that everyone would unintentionally turn out and say, “Let’s go to the Jain temple”. She shared this idea with some Shravaks at that time, but initially no noteworthy progress could be made in this direction.

Meanwhile, Sadhvi Ji continued to tour all over the country during her Shriji Vihar, but the magnificent dream of the wonderful temple had cemented in her heart and mind. During her kind visit to Jaipur, she inspired the eminent gem merchant, Shri Vimal Chand Ji Surana, about the holy project. Surana ji immediately expressed his unconditional consent to this proposal, and the noble idea of such a grand temple in the world-famous Pink City started taking shape. The Bhoomi Pujan and stone installation were done on December 8, 2010 and work started on January 31, 2011. The project was not as easy as it seemed to be since the land of the proposed temple site was uneven and unsuitable. It was a great challenge for the architects to design an appropriate layout and also for the contractors to establish a huge temple on such rough land that needed a strong foundation and support to take the load of this huge temple. But the commitment and passion that ascended from the holy and divine origin truly worked for 3 years, and collective hard work of all could make this happen. A strong foundation of 20 feet below and 20 feet high, i.e., 40 feet, was made for this grand and huge temple with ultimate grandeur. Since the use of iron usually weakens the walls of the temple in 50-100 years, whereas the walls made of stone and concrete remain the same for thousands of years. India’s most ancient temples and many historical monuments too, are direct evidence of this. Keeping this fact in mind, only stone and concrete have been used in the construction of the temple.

This temple is the largest and tallest among all the temples of Rajasthan. Its Rang Mandap has a seating capacity of 2000 people. The original Grabgrih has a beautiful single stone, 57-inch, weighing about 700-800 kg, statue of Lord Rishabhdev, the first Tirthankara that spontaneously pulls everyone towards it with profound emotions and devotion. There are two more idols of Simandar Swami and Parshvanath Bhagwan of 41 inches each in the grave along with Moolnayak Bhagwan. In Gokhale, two 31-inch statues will be enshrined, and outside the Rang Mandap, the idols of six Gods and Goddesses of 21–21 inches will also be installed. These idols have been prepared by internationally renowned sculptor Mahendra Sharma Ji of Saraswati Murti Bhandar in Jaipur. While engraving these sculptures and idols so delicately, Jain astrology and mathematics calculations, etc., have been kept in mind with utmost care so that each of them may have serene spiritual dignity and divnity alongwith with legitimacy.

The entire temple is based on the Meru Prasad Nagaradi style. According to Acharya Maniprabh Sagar ji, the design of this temple will be a unique confluence of different forms of unique Jain architecture and designs, which have been brilliantly influenced by contemporary Jain customs. A magnificent coordination of different Jain traditions and doctrines will be effectively expressed through these sculptures of Rang Mandap.