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In 1984, Pramukh Swami Maharaj inaugurated a small center in Whittier, Los Angeles County. [5] Nineteen years later, in 1996, the local group made a proposal to build a larger facility, including a traditional stone mandir, to fulfill Pramukh Swami's vision that he had shared with them almost two decades earlier and to accommodate their growing ...
Holley, David. "Legacy of Peace : Devotees Enact Rich Ritual at Festival as Work Progresses at Nation’s Largest Hindu Temple." Los Angeles Times, October 27, 1985. Shampa Mazumdar and Sanjoy Mazumdar. "Hindu Temple Building in Southern California: A Study of Immigrant Religion". Journal of Ritual Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2006), pp. 43-57.
Los Angeles has witnessed the building of new temples in its suburbs, as the result of a significant community of Hindus living in Los Angeles County and the surrounding counties. The Los Angeles Hindu Society is based at the Pasadena Hindu Temple, which claims to "promote the religious, social and cultural activities and the spiritual well ...
Building the BAPS Robbinsville temple: 12 years, 12,500 volunteers ... Los Angeles and other areas with large Hindu communities. But Robbinsville, which is easily accessible via I-195, or NJ ...
Churches in Los Angeles County, California (3 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Religious buildings and structures in Los Angeles County, California" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The one-year building permit, which the temple and FHM Mechanical both signed on, expired in June this year, according to the City of New Berlin’s records. The permits cost Narayanan $4,485 ...
By the 1970s, the religious groups and cultural associations started working together to create Hindu "temple societies." These societies formed in metropolitan areas with large Indian American populations such as Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Washington D.C.
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 ...