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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.
In 2010, the Bharatiya Temple of Northwest Indiana temple was opened [66] next to the Indian American Cultural Center in Merrillville, Indiana. The Bharatiya Temple allows four different Hindu groups as well as a Jain group to worship together. [67] The Sri Ganesha Temple of Alaska in Anchorage, Alaska, is the northernmost Hindu temple in the ...
Bharatiya Mandir is a Hindu temple in the Auckland suburb of Sandringham. It is the oldest and first purpose-built temple in New Zealand and officially opened in June 1993. [1] Bharatiya Mandir is a significant cultural landscape for Auckland's Hindu community and Hindu Indian diaspora. [2] [3] It is a site which hosts religious festivities ...
The Bharatiya Hindu Temple is a Hindu temple in Powell, Ohio. With approximately 2,000 members as of 2010, it is the largest Hindu temple in the Columbus metropolitan area . [ 2 ] According to the Center for Folklore Studies at Ohio State University , "The temple brings new languages, new practices, new ideas, new communities, and even new ...
The Jain Temple of Wisconsin is located on the same property as the Hindu temple and shares its parking lot. It is the only Jain temple in Wisconsin and has encouraged Jain immigrants to come to the state. [1] Initial plans housed both temples in the same building, but Jain families raised funds for a separate temple to meet their needs for ...
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 Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad ABAP (IAST: Akhila Bhāratīya Akhāḍā Pariṣad; lit. ' All India Monastery Council '), is one of the organizations of Hindu sants (saints) and sadhus (ascetics) in India. [1] [2] The ABAP is composed of 14 akharas, or organisations of Hindu sants and sadhus.
The Sri Lakshmi Temple in Ashland, Massachusetts, also known as the New England Hindu Temple, Inc. (NEHTI), is New England’s first traditional Hindu temple. [1] The temple was inaugurated in 1990 by priests from India, the United States, and Britain. Following the inauguration in 1990, the temple was expanded in 2005 and 2018.