Gandhinagar, the capital city of Gujarat, is situated 32 km north-east on the west bank of the Sabarmati River and named Gandhinagar, after the Gujarat-born Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhinagar is India's second planned city after Chandigarh. Its sole tourist site is the splendid Akshardham Temple of the Hindu Swaminarayan sect, constructed out of 6000 tonnes of pink sandstone.