Crawley Hindu temple celebrates tenth anniversary

By The Newsroom
Published 23rd Sep 2016, 13:31 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 22:39 BST
The Crawley Swaminarayan Hindu Temple celebrated its 10th birthday with a week long festival - picture submittedThe Crawley Swaminarayan Hindu Temple celebrated its 10th birthday with a week long festival - picture submitted
The Crawley Swaminarayan Hindu Temple celebrated its 10th birthday with a week long festival - picture submitted
The Swaminarayan Hindu Temple in Ifield celebrated its tenth anniversary with a week-long festival this month.

As well as offering Hindu worship services like celebrating festivals, the temple also offers community events for the senior citizens, youngsters, and female groups.

From Septempber 5 to 11, the Temple held seven day celebration to commemorate the milestone.

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It included a seven day recital of a Hindu Scripture Shrimad Bhagvat, bathing of deities in milk and honey by the leader of the Swaminarayan Hindu Religion, Acharya Koshalendraprasadji Maharaj from Ahmedabad, India.

The Crawley Swaminarayan Hindu Temple celebrated its 10th birthday with a week long festival - picture submittedThe Crawley Swaminarayan Hindu Temple celebrated its 10th birthday with a week long festival - picture submitted
The Crawley Swaminarayan Hindu Temple celebrated its 10th birthday with a week long festival - picture submitted

Raj Patel said: “We also had ten Hindu monks from India, guests from all over the world, we had over 250 different types of foods offered to the deities, the Mayor of Crawley Raj Sharma graced our event and over 1,000 devotees throughout the week.

“One of the most memorable events to mark the event was the initiation of the ‘Pledge a tree for life’ campaign headed by our spiritual leader Acharya Koshalendraprasadji Maharaj by planting the first of many fruit trees and in association with Brogdale Collections Charity.