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The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Robbinsville, New Jersey) is a slightly older, smaller mandir on the Akshardham campus, built between 2010 and 2014. The mandir was built in the Nagaradi style using 68,000 cubic feet (1,900 m 3) of Italian Carrara marble. The structure is 87 feet (27 m) wide, 133 feet (41 m) long, and 42 feet (13 m) high. [51]
The campus' centerpiece is a larger temple, called the Akshardham, which measures almost 90,000 square feet, reaches 191 feet into the sky and was made from 1.9 million cubic feet of marble and ...
BAPS Charities delivered care packages to seniors in New Jersey. [16] A food drive was also organized to collect non-perishable food items for the Robbinsville Township Food Pantry and NJ Rise. [17] On April 30, 2021, BAPS Charities hosted a vaccination drive in conjunction with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at the mandir. [18]
The Sri Venkateswara Temple, Pittsburgh, inaugurated on June 8, 1977, and the Hindu Temple Society of North America in New York, consecrated on July 4, 1977, became the first Hindu temples in the U.S. built by Indian immigrants. In the 1980s and 1990s, temples were built in nearly all major metropolitan areas.
The New Jersey Akshardham, which has been in the works for about 12 years, came under scrutiny and criticism after a 2021 civil lawsuit alleging forced labor, meager wages and grim working conditions.
Visiting BAPS Swaminarayan temple in NJ? Keep these Hindu holidays in mind. Gannett. Deena Yellin, NorthJersey.com. September 25, 2024 at 4:31 AM.
Ashtavinayaka with an Om featured in the centre. Ashtavinayaka (Marathi: अष्टविनायक) is a Sanskrit term which means "eight Ganeshas".The Ashtavinayaka Yatra refers to a pilgrimage to the eight Hindu temples in the state of Maharashtra, India, centered around the city of Pune.
The temple in Weehawken, New Jersey, was opened in 1987, and was the first in the US. [37] By 2012, the organisation had 20 temples in the US, in cities including Boston , Houston , Chicago , Los Angeles , Tampa, Florida , Detroit and Cleveland, Ohio , Colonia , Parsippany and Cherry Hill .