(RNS) — Over the weekend, my family celebrated our son’s birthday at the BAPS Swaminarayan mandir in Robbinsville, New Jersey. We chose the temple for a variety of reasons, including the ease of ...

The BAPS spiritual organization has opened a new Hindu temple in New Jersey that is larger than its Swaminarayan Mandir church facility in Chino Hills, Calif. (shown). File photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Oct ...

If you’ve ever wanted to visit India, head to Main Street in Robbinsville, N.J., just west of Hamilton Township, where a gold-topped spire will peek above the skyline. Head toward it, and you arrive ...

The Sri Rajaganapathi Temple, a Hindu temple in Swedesboro, is not the largest or most ornate as far as Hindu temples go. Until recently, it didn’t even have its own gopuram — the monumental, detailed ...

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and a growing number of Hindu faithful now call the town of Cary home as well as their center of worship. Fourteen years ago, a Hindu ...

Shivani Patel, 24, decided to give up her corporate job at L’Oréal last December. “I wanted to do something that was a little bit bigger than myself,” said Patel, who graduated in 2020 from Rutgers ...

The recent desecration of an iconic Hindu temple in Chino Hills with anti-Hindu and anti-Indian government graffiti has heightened concerns among South Asian groups following a slew of such incidents ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --The largest Hindu temple in North America will hold an inauguration ceremony Sunday to officially dedicate the new cultural landmark in New Jersey. The service at BAPS Swaminarayan ...