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The growing congregation temporarily held services at an Elks Club, and then in July 1982 moved to a former synagogue in Iselin, New Jersey. Still growing, in mid-1985 the church moved into a newly constructed 1,300-seat facility in Edison, New Jersey, its base for the next fifteen years. However, overflow crowds and limited parking created ...
The campus' centerpiece is a larger temple, called the Akshardham, which measures almost 90,000 square feet, reaches 191 feet into the sky and was made from 1.9 million cubic feet of marble and ...
Oak Tree Road runs for about one-and-a-half miles through Edison and neighboring Iselin, a section of Woodbridge Township. [5] [6] The epicenter of Little India retail is traditionally on the two-block stretch of Oak Tree Road between Correja Avenue and Middlesex Avenue in Iselin, an area officially known as India Square; there, as of 2017, rents were roughly double over the rest of the area. [7]
Iselin (/ ˈ ɪ z ˈ l ɪ n / [9]) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [10] located within Woodbridge Township, in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] As of the 2020 United States census , Iselin's population was 20,088, [ 3 ] up from 18,695 in 2010 .
Why put a Mormon temple in NJ? About 35,000 Latter-day Saints live in New Jersey in over 60 congregations — including Emerson and Englewood, the website says. But until now, the closest temples ...
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Robbinsville, New Jersey) is a slightly older, smaller mandir on the Akshardham campus, built between 2010 and 2014. The mandir was built in the Nagaradi style using 68,000 cubic feet (1,900 m 3) of Italian Carrara marble. The structure is 87 feet (27 m) wide, 133 feet (41 m) long, and 42 feet (13 m) high. [51]
BAPS Charities delivered care packages to seniors in New Jersey. [16] A food drive was also organized to collect non-perishable food items for the Robbinsville Township Food Pantry and NJ Rise. [17] On April 30, 2021, BAPS Charities hosted a vaccination drive in conjunction with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at the mandir. [18]
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Edison, New Jersey is a Hindu temple built by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, a Hindu denomination within the Swaminarayan Sampradaya. The first BAPS mandir built in Edison was consecrated by Pramukh Swami Maharaj in August 1996. In 2019, a new mandir was built on the same property and a re-inauguration ...