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The Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago (HTGC) is a Hindu temple complex in Lemont, Illinois. It was inaugurated and opened to the public on July 4, 1986. It was inaugurated and opened to the public on July 4, 1986.
The central shrine of the mandir houses the murti of Swaminarayan, with Gunatitanand Swami to his left, together worshipped as Akshar-Purushottam Maharaj.Other shrines hold the murtis of Ghanshyam Maharaj, Harikrishna Maharaj, Radha-Krishna, Shiva-Parvati, Sita-Ram, Hanumana, Ganesh, and the lineage of BAPS gurus who are Swaminarayan's spiritual successors in BAPS. [2]
The Sri Venkateswara Temple, Pittsburgh, inaugurated on June 8, 1977, and the Hindu Temple Society of North America in New York, consecrated on July 4, 1977, became the first Hindu temples in the U.S. built by Indian immigrants. In the 1980s and 1990s, temples were built in nearly all major metropolitan areas.
Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago; S. Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Chicago (Itasca) Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Chicago (Wheeling) This page was last edited on 26 August ...
A Chicago temple may refer to: . BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Chicago, is a Hindu place of worship of the denomination of the Swaminarayan branch of Hinduism.; Baháʼí House of Worship (Wilmette, Illinois), in a suburb of Chicago, the second Baháʼí House of Worship ever constructed and the oldest one still standing.
The International Swaminarayan Satsang Mandal (ISSM) is a religious organisation of the Hindu faith based in USA. It comes under the Laxmi Narayan Dev Gadi of the Shree Swaminarayan Sampraday. [1] The organisation has temples and centres in various parts of the country as well as a temple in Chicago, Illinois (America). [2]
The first documented arrival of Indians to Chicago occurred in the 1890s. [5] One of the earliest and most famous Indian visitors to the city was the Hindu monk and philosopher Swami Vivekananda, who arrived in Chicago to appear as a delegate at the World Parliament of Religions, which was held in conjunction with the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. [6]
But diverse ethnicities and sectarian groups of Pakistani origin often organize themselves along sectarian or ethnic lines. Of the Indians, about 80% are Hindu, about 7% are Muslim, and about 5% are Sikh. Cities with Hindu temples include Aurora, Bartlett, and Lemont. The Lemont temple was dedicated in 1986 and as of 2004 the Bartlett temple is ...