Popularly known as the Lotus Temple, the Bahá'í House of Worship in New Delhi, India is a house of worship that was designed by Iranian architect Fariborz Sahba and completed in 1986. The building is composed of 27 free-standing marble-clad "petals" arranged in clusters of three to form nine side. The structure is inspired by the lotus flower and is arguably one of the most visible instances of biomimicry in contemporary architecture.

The temple is one of eight Bahá'í House of Worship facilities in the world and has welcomed over 70 million visitors since its completion,making it one of the most frequented architectural landmarks in the world.From a denominational standpoint,the Lotus temple is open to all practitioners regardless of religious affiliation and functions more as a gathering place of worship to interested visitors.

The aforementioned “leaves” are integral to the organization of the space and are classified into three categories: entrance leaves,outer leaves, and inner leaves.The entrance leaves (nine in total), demarcate the entrance on each of the nine sides of the complex.The outer leaves serves as the roof to the ancillary spaces, complemented by the inners leaves which form the main worship space.These inner leaves approach, but do not meet at the tip of the worship space and are capped with a dramatic glass and steel skylight. 

The temple is constructed primarily of concrete and clad in Grecian marble, resulting in the Lotus Temple’s pristine white exterior while the interior of the structure is revealed in true Expressionist fashion, with the precast ribbed roof exposed in the worship spaces.Funded almost entirely by private donations,the structure is sited on a magnificent 26-acre landscape including native vegation and a series of nine ponds surrounding the temple.