There are 44 representations of the elephant god Ganesh in the building and 236 images of peacocks. The temple opened with a murti pratishta ritual on Aug. 10, a ceremony that invited the spirit ...

Initially, after taking off your shoes and walking up the white marble staircase to enter the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu temple in Robbinsville ... welcome deity spirits into the marble ...

Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP has campaigned for decades to construct a temple at the site, widely believed by devotees to be where Lord Ram, one of the most revered deities in Hinduism, was born.