Illuminated by a skylight at the center of a small factory-turned-Hindu temple in Queens sits a murti of the Divine Mother — ...

Among the food items, or annakut, placed in front of an altar at BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Bartlett is a cake made to look just like the Hindu temple off Route 59 at which the celebration ...

An altar, or singhasan, ... There’s a third local Hindu temple in Newport News. The three represent different sects with different specific beliefs on deities and gurus, Shah said.

The temple was dedicated on November 8, 1991, according to the designs of the famous Indian architect, V. Ganapati Sthapati. Based in Chennai, India, Sthapati defined modern Hindu architecture with a ...

In the basement of the Hindu temple, 150 children attend Sunday school to learn more about Hinduism. They joined their families for a service this week, some parents holding them in their arms as ...

Sri Venkateswara Temple devotees and volunteers carry a deity back into the temple June 27 during Maha Kumbhabhishekam, a five-day Hindu rededication ceremony in Penn Hills, Pa. Built in the 1970s ...

By about 11 a.m. on Sunday, the action within the temple intensified. Dwivedi explained: In most Hindu temples, a particular deity is emphasized, and rarely are there so many in one place.

Now fellow worshipers were planning an emergency prayer session at Thaker’s BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, a Hindu temple in Beltsville, Md. It was 2002. Thaker was 17.

There was one small Hindu temple in Irving, she said, ... People walk around the altars of the deities in prayer at Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple in Frisco on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023.

All this seems very fine, and so it was, until I received from a Hindu friend in India a link to a blog at The Telegraph site by Damian Thompson, "Archbishop Nichols 'offered flowers at the altar ...

West Tower, Meenakshi Temple(photo by Mamichaelraj, CC BY-SA 4.0) Hindu temples often share some general architectural characteristics. The towers are often built using a combination of circles and ...