Posted on 10/07/2023 9:12:51 PM PDT by FarCenter
After 12 years of planning and construction, the largest Hindu temple outside India in the modern era is ready to open to the public in Robbinsville, New Jersey
If stones could talk, sing and tell stories, Yogi Trivedi believes the marble and limestone that adorn the spires, pillars and archways of the stunning Hindu temple in central New Jersey would compose a paean to the divine.
The tales these stones tell are those of seva (selfless service) and bhakti (devotion), which form the core of the Swaminarayan sect, a branch of Hinduism, said Mr. Trivedi, a scholar of Hinduism at Columbia University.
It took a combined total of about 4.7 million hours of work by artisans and volunteers to hand-carve about 2 million cubic feet of stone. The four varieties of marble from Italy and limestone from Bulgaria traveled first to India and then over 8,000 miles across the world to New Jersey.
They were then fitted together like a giant jigsaw to create what is now touted as the largest Hindu temple outside India to be built in the modern era, standing on a 126-acre tract. It will open to the public on Monday.
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Does it have a 7-11 sign on top?
Pagan amusement park. Where’s the blue elephant?
Thanks Mike Lee (R-Bombay).
Why can’t these c#nts build this crap in Utah.
Oh. Thanks.
There will be poor sewage and they will revel in the poor sewage and make jokes and oscar winning movies about the poor sewage. Super gross slobs. Have no respect for anything. Feel bad for the people who have to live next to this third world trash.
Does it have an area to house the scam call center?
New Jersey has the largest Indian population per capita in the United States.
Why was this allowed, it should be removed to India.
Along with the human roaches it would attract.
They have another big one near me and a mosque. I wish they could be blown up and the worshippers sent back.
I guess NJ reminds them of India, crowded, corrupt, etc.
re; “Why was this allowed?”
it is called THE FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.
you know, the t’ing , that we both swore an oath to defend.
a footnote to your query ...wrre you aware that in 2007, the glorious V.A., yes, that protector of our health (and past employer), was SUED for the right for veterans other than the Abrahamic faiths, to request their religioous symbol on their V.A. supplied headstone?
(refer sgt. Patrick Stewart lawsuit)
Well, all Indians should be deported. Call it protecting America and American jobs or call it in solidarity with Canada or maybe because India chose to side with Russia and buys their oil instead of respecting us as a supposed ally. They are our enemy, flooding the US with their excess population, tribal castes, and cesspool culture.
That’s not funny, that’s Sikh!
You get an extra 10 points for originality
ANY religion, even Voodoo or Rastafari, is better than atheism and evolutionism...
I understand that Wiccans, Satanists, and Atheists now each have their own symbol for V.A. headstones.
Wiccans use a pentacle. Satanists use and upside down pentacle in a circle (courtesy of LeVey). Atheists use the atom as their symbol (courtesy of O'Hare).
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