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Maha Ganapati Temple of Arizona is a Hindu temple located in Maricopa, Arizona. It is one of many temples that serves the Hindu Population of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. It is also within two hour driving distance from Tucson, Arizona. Nestled in a remote location away from the traffic it offers a quiet location for the devotees.
Braj Mandir Hindu Temple [57] Holbrook: BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir [58] Lowell: ISSO Shri Swaminarayan Hindu Temple [59] Lowell: NE-SRS Brundavan [60] Lowell: Shrinathji Haveli Lowell [61] Lowell: Shivalaya Temple of Greater Boston [62] Medford: Shri Dwarkamai Shirdi Sai Baba Temple [63] North Billerica: SMVS Shree Swaminarayan Mandir [64 ...
Swaminarayan in the form of Ghanshyam (left) with Radha Krishna at the Swaminarayan temple in Houston A small number of followers migrated to the United States before 1965 as students, and following a 1965 immigration law, a large number of Indians, including members of the sect. moved there from the 1970s until 2000. [ 33 ]
Swaminarayan (IAST: Svāmīnārāyaṇa; 3 April 1781 – 1 June 1830), also known as Sahajanand Swami, was a yogi and ascetic believed by followers to be a manifestation of Krishna [2] [3] [4] or the highest manifestation of Purushottama, [5] [6] around whom the Swaminarayan Sampradaya developed.
Swaminarayan Hindu Temple Portsmouth, VA: US: A 30-year-old Church was converted to a temple to accommodate the Guajarati community of Chesapeake near Portsmouth, Virginia. It is the 6th Church to be converted into a temple in the US, and the 9th in the world. [7] Swaminarayan Hindu Temple Highland Mennonite Church Bear, Delaware: US
The mandir in Gondal was constructed around the Akshar Deri, the cremation memorial of Gunatitanand Swami, who is revered as a manifestation of Aksharbrahman. [125] Shastriji Maharaj constructed his last mandir on the banks of the River Ghela in Gadhada, where Swaminarayan resided for the majority of his adult life. [150] [151]
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Robbinsville, New Jersey) in Central New Jersey is a Hindu shikharbaddha mandir that was built between 2010 and 2014. It is part of the Akshardham complex of the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, a denomination of the Swaminarayan branch of Hinduism.
A mandir is a Hindu, Jain or Buddhist temple. The term shikharbaddha is composed of the Sanskrit word shikhara, meaning mountain peak, and baddha, meaning bound [2] Thus, a shikharbaddha mandir refers to a type of Hindu or Jain temple with a pinnacle atop its sacred shrine that makes it appear bounded by a mountain peak.