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The Hindu Temple Society of North America is a nonprofit organization that manages the Sri Maha Vallabha Ganapati Devasthanam temple in Flushing, Queens, in New York City. [1] It is known as the Ganesha Temple after its main deity, Ganesha, [1] and is the second-oldest Hindu temple in the United States built by Indian immigrants.
Although it is unknown when (or how) Ganesh Chaturthi was first observed, the festival has been publicly celebrated in Pune since the era of King Shivaji (1630–1680, founder of the Maratha Empire). [ 21 ] [ better source needed ] The Peshwa in the 18th century were devotees of Ganesha and started as a public Ganesh festival in their capital ...
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It was produced by K. Gopala Rao under the Aswaraja Pictures banner. The story is of Syamantakopakhyanam, annually read during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival day celebrations of Lord Vinayaka. The film was dubbed into Tamil as Vinayaga Chathurthi and was released in 1959 [1] and later into Hindi in 1973 as Ganesh Chaturti.
Ananta Chaturdashi is also marked as the last day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival and is also called Ganesh Chaudas, when devotees bid adieu to the deity Ganesha by immersing (visarjana) his idols in water.
Nuakhai is an agricultural festival mainly observed by people of Western Odisha in India. [1] [5] Nuakhai is observed to welcome the new rice of the season.According to the calendar it is observed on panchami tithi (the fifth day) of the lunar fortnight of the month of Bhadrapada or Bhadraba (August–September), the day after the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
A New York teenager is spreading holiday cheer in an inspiring and sustainable way this Christmas. For the fourth year running, Andrew Reid, 19, has constructed a giant dazzling holiday light ...
Lalbaugcha Raja (English: The King of Lalbaug) is the sarvajanik (public) Ganesha idol kept at Lalbaug, a locality in Mumbai in the Indian state of Maharashtra, during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. The idol gives darshan [ clarification needed ] to the devotees for 11 days; thereafter it is immersed in the Arabian Sea at Girgaon Chowpatty on ...