I visited a Hindu temple today, since this is the culture board I thought you guys might be interested.
Hindu temple visit
Parker Lewis
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Xavier Smith
The thing is enormous. 100% hand carved marble with no steel supports.
Brandon Wilson
Gabriel Reyes
Cameron Gray
Michael Perez
Nicholas Barnes
It's part of the Swaminarayan sect, they worship their founding guru as God, so they're not standard Hindus. But they build ridiculously ornate temples.
Aaron Sanders
ugly piece of shit
the metal gate was the best thing
Jonathan Peterson
Entrance way, unfortunately visitors can't go up the huge staircase, you enter by another building on the side. You can't take photos inside which sucks, but I snuck a few in their exhibition where there weren't any staff, and some on the balcony.
Parker Green
It's ostentatious but I found it beautiful myself.
Jace Russell
From the exhibit inside. Blurry because it's dark and I took it quickly so no one saw. It included the typical Hindu claim that the aryans were indiginous to India.
Isaiah Ross
Nathaniel Powell
Short biography of their founding guru. Mastered all the scriptures at age 7, apparently.
Joseph Brooks
View of the courtyard, which has artificial grass unfortunately, made it seem tacky.
Camden Scott
Ganesh!
Jaxson Stewart
The balcony. There was an annoying school group going through.
Nolan Myers
Panorama of the temple and gate
Jaxon Cox
Next I went to the Hare Krishna "temple" in Soho.
Kayden Campbell
This is it, it's just a room. Seemed to be dominated by white hippies.
Michael Williams
Tacky krishna plushies in the shop
Jaxson Edwards
I don't know wtf this is
Chase Gomez
These are from the website of the Swaminarayan temple since I couldn't take them. The murtis were dressed like this today, the centre one is their guru.
Owen Turner
Owen Lee
They have murtis for all the major gods, Shiva, Krishna, Hanuman, Ganesh, etc. I attended the arti ceremony where they wave candles in front of the statues.
Asher Nguyen
That's not even considered a temple here. They are built by elites who can't stand the fact that the money can't give absolute power over the temple built over centuries, instead build buildings like this with a Single statue and call it's a temple. If you wan't to see good temples come to south india
Eli Sanders
That's not even considered a temple here. They are built by elites who can't stand the fact that the money can't give absolute power over the temple built over centuries, instead build buildings like this with a Single statue and call it's a temple. If you wan't to see good temples come to south india and get real vibes
Ian Allen
oops fucked up here
Liam Johnson
That's not even considered a temple here. They are built by elites who can't stand the fact that the money can't give absolute power over the temple built over centuries, instead build buildings like this with a Single statue and call it's a temple. If you wan't to see good temples come to south india and get real vibes
Austin Lewis
Not sure I agree, there were plenty of Indian practitioners worshipping there, and it has hundreds of statues and carvings. But being modern, of course it lacks heritage. I'd absolutely love to go to India, but I don't have the cash :(
Chase Rodriguez
>since this is the culture board I thought you guys might be interested.
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Christian Johnson
One more thing: I saw an Indian facebook post being created in front of me! These guys literally just came in for the photo and then played on their phones for a bit and left.
Samuel Bell
I don't say the people who come here are not genuine, but the people build temples like these, are money minded and corrupt af.
Leo Sanders
Looks like a neet hip hop album cover
Matthew Ortiz
Thrash metal I mean.
I didn’t see the lion eating some random guy.
Jonathan Sanders
I can believe that, any organisation with lots of money to spend is corrupt, especially religious ones. Still, it seems to be doing a good service for the local hindu community and it's free to enter.
Ryder Sanders
People can say whatever they want about immigrants, but this type of architecture is vastly preferable to the standard modernist architecture in the west
>It included the typical Hindu claim that the aryans were indiginous to India.
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Blake Watson
Yeah, this organization BAPS has a bunch of very, very nice temples across California too
absolutely beautiful places
But they aren't really "temple" temples, my parents would never go to a BAPS temple for hindu shit.
I think based on these pics that BAPS is related to this whole krishna consciousness sect, because that guy is the guru who started ISKCON
seems to be a very stupid cult like organization, albeit very well funded, like most religious organizations are I suppose
Austin Roberts
My posts were confusing, sorry, those photos are from an ISKCON temple I visited afterward. BAPS are unconnected to the Krishna Consciousness movement.
Ryan Gutierrez
Nice thread OP
Robert Green
okay I see, BAPS is an entirely different organization, this thing en.wikipedia.org
do you know how they are funded? It doesn't say in the article, and it doesn't really seem like the religion has enough followers to build all these giant ass mandirs, so they must have some really big donors or something
I mean each of these mandirs probably costs upwards of 10 million dollars
holy shit, I just looked it up and the one in toronto cost 40 million
Carter Green
Though not much of a religious guy, I love the type of architecture in Hindu temples( both Nağara and Dravida), and consider it to be the best type of architecture in the world.
ITT post 10/10 Temple architecture
(Pic kinda related)
Aiden Cook
Jordan Thompson
It's strange how people consider the Taj Mahal the epitome of India when it was built by the Persianate Mughals, fucking plebs I swear
Luis Davis
Honestly I have no idea, the stuff at the temple itself didn't explain it.
It's an irony of partition that the main muslim monuments are outside Pakistan.
Jose Thompson
Based
>t. hinduboo