(RNS) — Over the weekend, my family celebrated our son’s birthday at the BAPS Swaminarayan mandir in Robbinsville, New Jersey. We chose the temple for a variety of reasons, including the ease of ...
The BAPS spiritual organization has opened a new Hindu temple in New Jersey that is larger than its Swaminarayan Mandir church facility in Chino Hills, Calif. (shown). File photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Oct ...
If you’ve ever wanted to visit India, head to Main Street in Robbinsville, N.J., just west of Hamilton Township, where a gold-topped spire will peek above the skyline. Head toward it, and you arrive ...
Image Source: shawnzam on Flickr OHNY: Hindu Temple Society of North America – openhousenewyork lets us inside the Hindu Temple Sri Maha Vallabha Ganapati Devasthanam (GMAP). One of the nation’s ...
The challenge, then, is not external hostility or social exclusion. It is continuity under minority conditions. When a tradition is visible without being formative, celebrated without being taught, ...
A sacred guardian statue at the Sri Venkateswara Temple in Cary, North Carolina, was vandalized on January 18. Hindu advocacy ...
Shivani Patel, 24, decided to give up her corporate job at L’Oréal last December. “I wanted to do something that was a little bit bigger than myself,” said Patel, who graduated in 2020 from Rutgers ...
The recent desecration of an iconic Hindu temple in Chino Hills with anti-Hindu and anti-Indian government graffiti has heightened concerns among South Asian groups following a slew of such incidents ...
Oct. 8 (UPI) --The largest Hindu temple in North America will hold an inauguration ceremony Sunday to officially dedicate the new cultural landmark in New Jersey. The service at BAPS Swaminarayan ...