MANDIR Hindu temple: place of worship Dedicated to one or many Hindu deities Japa - Individual silent or soft repetition of mantras.

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MANDIR Hindu temple: place of worship Dedicated to one or many Hindu deities Japa - Individual silent or soft repetition of mantras

Delhi: Largest Hindu Temple Complex

London

Krishna Temple, Utah

PUJAS (Prayers, Songs, Rituals) Create shrines in temples, in the home, and in outdoor public spaces. Priests perform puja at sunrise, noon, sunset, and midnight. Visiting a temple every day or even regularly is not mandatory so many worship at home.

FAMILY SHRINE A photograph of god/gods, flowers, fruits, incense, perfume, a bell, an oil lamp, scripture

HOLIDAYS: DIWALI (A Row of Lights) Hindu New Year (October or November) Decorate streets and doorways with small clay lamps in anticipation of the coming of Lakshmi (prosperity and good fortune) Lasts for five days Clean homes, decorate floors with floor paintings made of rice flour Wears finest clothes & offers gifts to neighbors

CHAITRA (HOLI) Spring festival (March or April) celebrating coming of Krishna Bonfires lit in the evening to empower the sun as it moves to longer and warmer spring hours Sing and dance all night and extinguish fire with water at dawn Water colored with dyes are thrown at each other, eat holiday foods and sweets Lasts for 3 days

SYMBOLS: AUM Means yes or will be Said in the beginning of mantras or Hindu texts and at the end of reading the Vedas

SRI YANTRA 9 interlocking triangles (4 upward: masculine and 5 downward: feminine) meet at a point representing the interlocking of the two and representing all creation

THE SWASTIKA Good fortune, luck, well-being

THE LOTUS Represents beauty