7 Guinness World Records That Are From Jaipur

Jaipur, the pink city of Rajasthan, India is known for its big heritage and Royal forts. The city holds important place in our History. Apart from heritage the other things that made Jaipur famous are its food, cafes and fabric prints. But the thing that made this city more famous is the people residing here, who hold Guinness World Record.

# Man with the longest MUSTACHE

In 2010, at the age of 58, Ram Singh Chauhan of Jaipur entered the Guinness Book of World Record for the having the Longest Mustache in the World. One of his most prized possessions, Ram Singh’s mustache are an incredible 14ft long and it took him 32 years to grow it. He says it takes him 2 hours everyday to groom his mustache.

# Temple with a Marvelous Feat of Architecture

The Satsang Bhavan at Govind Devji Temple hold the record for the world’s widest RCC Flat roof construction with a single span of 119 feet. The hall was opened public in July 2009, the same year when it entered the Guinness Book Of World Record.

# Worlds largest display of Lamps

On 30 January 2016, to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s anniversary, Dainik Bhaskar organised the world’s largest display of oil lamps at Govind Devji Temple. 21075 diyas were lit in the temple’s Satsang Bhawan, thus marking its entry in the Guinness Book Of World Record.

# World's Largest Silver Vessel

In one of the halls of City Palace, stand two huge sterling silver vessels called “Kalash.” Both the vessels are 5.2 feet long & weigh 340 kg with a capacity of 4000 liters. These Kalash are officially recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest sterling silver vessels.

# World's Biggest Sports Trophy

In 2013, Jaipur based jeweler Amit Pabuwal entered the Guinness Book of World Record when he made the world’s biggest gold trophy for a company in North America.

# Biggest Bhoomi Poojan

Organised in Mahapura, about 16 kms from Jaipur, this event made its way to Guinness Book Of World Record for having the most priests participating in a religious ceremony.

# Maximum Number of comments on Social Media

Three students of Amity University – Gajanand Bohra, Shiraz Khan, and Shahwaz Khan made two separate Guinness World Records by getting 3.7 lakh comments in first 24 hrs on their post about ‘Mother’s Love’ on April 8, 2012. The other record was for getting 34 lakh comments in nine months on the same post. This record was set back on 2013.