Ajmer Jain Temple, Jain temple in Ajmer, India

The Ajmer Jain temple, Soniji Ki Nasiyan, is built of red sandstone from Karauli, with a marble staircase leading up to the main shrine. Its gateway has three pointed high-rise arches with jharokhas, and an 82-foot Manastambha stands at the entrance. The white marble mulnayak is a large idol of Rishabhanatha, and the two-storeyed Swarna Nagri hall behind holds gilt wooden figures.

Construction took place during the latter 1800s, creating a main chamber called the Golden City. This room holds detailed depictions of the ancient city of Ayodhya.

The temple is also called Soniji Ki Nasiyan and Sone ka Mandir, after the Soni family who built and still own it. The Swarna Nagri hall holds gilt wooden figures of the five auspicious events of Rishabha's life, assembled from a manuscript by Acharya Jinasena. Only Jains may perform rituals at the three Vedis, reinstalled in 2005.

The temple stands on Prithvi Raj Marg, with a marble staircase in front of the red sandstone gateway leading up to the main shrine. The two-storey Swarna Nagri hall behind the temple is open to visitors of all religions every day of the year. Only Jains may perform rituals in the Vedi section.

The Swarna Nagri hall holds a three-dimensional model of Ayodhya and Mount Sumeru, not Kailash, assembled from thousands of parts carved in Jaipur over 25 years (1870–1895) after the Adi Purana of Acharya Jinasena. Seth Moolchand Soni, born 1830, conceived it for teaching and died in 1891 before it was finished.