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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.
The 8-foot (2.4 m) high bronze statue, larger than life size, was donated by the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation with support from Mohan Murjani.It was dedicated on October 2, 1986, the 117th anniversary of Gandhi's birth; civil rights leader Bayard Rustin delivered a keynote speech at the ceremony. [2]
The most recent incident happened on Aug. 16 when a group walked passed the Tulsi Mandir temple in Richmond Hill, hit the statue of Gandhi with a hammer and defaced it with spray paint.
A carnival float featuring a Hindu temple that is planned for an upcoming India Day Parade in New York City has sparked controversy, with a number of groups calling it anti-Muslim and saying it ...
The Maha Vallabha Ganapathi Devastanam, owned by the Hindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing, New York, was consecrated on July 4, 1977. [52] There are over 1450 Hindu temples across the United States, [53] with a majority on the East Coast. The New York region has more than 1135 temples; [54] Texas has 128 [55] and Massachusetts has ...
The temple is located at 43-11 Ithaca Street, in Elmhurst, Queens, New York City. [ 2 ] The temple houses shrines for Mahavir in the Śvētāmbara tradition, Rishabhanatha in the Digambar tradition, Upashraya in the Sthanakvasi tradition (who do not have pratimas) and a meditation hall for the Shrimad Rajchandra tradition.
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 ...
Indians in the New York City metropolitan area constitute one of the largest and fastest-growing ethnicities in the New York City metropolitan area of the United States. The New York City region is home to the largest and most prominent Indian American population among metropolitan areas by a significant margin, enumerating 711,174 uniracial individuals based on the 2013–2017 U.S. Census ...