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The story of BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham in Robbinsville, New Jersey, actually involves two distinct temple structures built nearly a decade apart on the same site. Construction of the first phase — a 12,000-square-foot marble Mandir — began in 2010, …
In November 2015, on a date specifically chosen and ritually significant — 14th and 15th November — a community of Indian immigrants across the Tristate area completed something they had been working toward for years: the Balalaya Prathishta (preliminary consecration) …
Meena Agarwal, a 46-year-old homemaker from Jaipur, had a lifelong fear of rats. When her husband suggested Karni Mata Temple during a Bikaner trip, she refused flatly. He went alone; she waited in the car.
On their second visit to …
Ramana Prasad, a 48-year-old businessman from Hyderabad, had heard from a friend that TTD had a “CDMS system” that gave donors priority accommodation and darshan at Tirumala. His friend — a regular visitor — had recommended it.
Ramana searched online, …
