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BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is a Hindu temple in Atlanta, Georgia, inaugurated on August 26, 2007, by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, a denomination of the Swaminarayan branch of Hinduism headed by Mahant Swami Maharaj.
The Hindu Temple of Atlanta is located in Riverdale, Georgia, and serves the Metro Atlanta Hindu population. But, because of its proximity to the I-75, and its popularity, nearly 5-10% of the devotees are from the eastern seaboard, southern, and midwestern states. The temple is 9-miles away from the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport ...
By the 1970s, the religious groups and cultural associations started working together to create Hindu "temple societies." These societies formed in metropolitan areas with large Indian American populations such as Atlanta , Boston, Chicago, Detroit , Houston , Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh , the San Francisco Bay Area , and Washington D.C.
The BAPS mandir in Neasden, London was the first traditional Hindu mandir built in Europe. [154] The organisation has six shikharbaddha mandir's in North America in the metro areas of Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, Toronto, Los Angeles, and in the New Jersey suburb of Robbinsville Township, near Trenton, New Jersey. [155]
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta in adjacent Lilburn, Georgia is currently the largest Hindu temple in the world outside of India. [19] It is one of approximately 15 Hindu temples in the metro Atlanta area, along with 7 other Hindu temples in Georgia serving nearly 100,000 Hindus in Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Perry, Savannah, Columbus ...
Hindu Temple of Atlanta This page was last edited on 26 August 2021, at 11:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Dar-es-Salaam: Location: Primary Deity: Constructed in: Architecture: Notes: Dar-es-Salaam Swaminarayan 1958 Haveli style tri-spire structure This Temple is owned by Tanzania Swaminarayan Mandal, an organization blessed by both the Acharyas of Amdavad & Vadtal. It is open to devotees of all caste/color/creed.
The bombing ripped the delicate social fabric of Atlanta, which called itself the "city too busy to hate," [7] although it also elicited widespread support for Rothschild and the Temple from Jewish and non-Jewish Atlantans alike. [6] By early November 1958, the Temple had received over $12,000 in donations to its rebuilding fund. [8]