NEW YORK (RNS) — Illuminated by a skylight at the center of a small factory-turned-Hindu temple in Queens sits ... a priestess at the Richmond Hill temple. “It’s very raw.” Even other Hindus might ...

The temple in Robbinsville, N.J., about 15 years in the making, is believed to be the largest in the Western Hemisphere. But its construction has also been clouded in controversy.

Mehul Patel, a volunteer with BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, a Hindu temple in Chino Hills, Calif., speaks during a rally for unity and peace on Sunday, March 9, 2025, after the temple was ...

A planned temple in Gotha stirs hopes of Hindu faithful, ire of Orange County neighbors Residents argue the “Temple on Hempel,” at 33,000 square feet, is too big for their rural community ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A group of people accused of robbing a Hindu temple in Nashua is also linked to a robbery at a Buddhist temple in Grafton. Grafton police shared pictures of the suspects, who ...

VRINDAVAN, India – Krishna, a skinny 12-year-old, waits near a Hindu temple packed with pilgrims. He hears a yell – that's his cue. He zigzags between motorbikes and honking tuk-tuks, elbows ...

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 ...

The sun shines down onto the Iraivan Temple surrounded by lush forest at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery, on July 10, 2023, in Kapaa, Hawaii. The temple is made entirely of hand-carved granite, which ...

Police say the group walked passed the Tulsi Mandir temple in South Richmond Hill and knocked over a statue of Gandhi on Aug. 16. Then they struck the statue with a hammer and defaced it with ...

The Iskcon Temple, the city's first Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Krishna, was established in 1987 and has grown to about 2,000 families.