...and, if so, where do you go to temple?

1/30/2006 9:46:44 PM

to be halfway off topic, I like the hindu faith. I think it's my favorite of the organized religions, next to buddhism

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1/30/2006 10:24:49 PM

that's cool... i'm working on a temple of balaji for cary and thought i'd see if i could get some opinions

1/30/2006 10:27:30 PM

I rarely go...and when I go, I go to either the one in Morrisville or the Balaji Temple in Cary which is currently in a makeshift place...

1/30/2006 10:55:06 PM

yep, thats the one we're replacing... on chapel hill rd. you'll go a lot more after you get the new one. i'm trying to sell them on the idea of a full glass enclosure between the shrine towers...

1/30/2006 11:23:14 PM

Ask Sonali, Sugarush4U

1/31/2006 1:40:17 AM

The 2 temples, i.e. the one in morrisville or hindu bhavan area and the venkateshwara temple are totally different from each other. The one in Morrisville is more in the line for north indians, and personallly i get a more commercial sort of feeling there. The Venkateshwara temple even though almost looking like a makeshift place, is more to the taste of south indians. Infact very few North Indians actually believe in Lord Venkateshwara. The temple is not bad actually though their plans of building somethign bigger seems to be on hold forever. I think right now they need a more organized thing running there, it is almost like a house with a few idols.

1/31/2006 12:25:42 PM

i go to the one in morrisville since my dad has worked on it a lot and its about a less than 5-10 min drive from my house

1/31/2006 12:28:20 PM

i think ^^ assesment is pretty much on target.... i usually go to the one in morrisville.

1/31/2006 12:33:22 PM

Venkateshwara temples are an artifact of the south indian diaspora fer sure. if you are interested in that stuff take REL 331 with stewart, we spent about a month on that crap

1/31/2006 12:43:53 PM

The Hindu Community Center & the Swaminarayan Temple

both on Aviation Pkwy

1/31/2006 12:47:26 PM

where can i go to worship shiva?

1/31/2006 1:31:50 PM

any Hindu temple that has a Shiva statue

i'm not familiar with the ones in Charlotte--assuming that's where you are

1/31/2006 1:37:20 PM

excellent

i'm gonna go hang with this guy



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1/31/2006 1:39:27 PM

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"where can i go to worship shiva?"

You're couch. The floor. The inner stillness behind your temple. Wherever you see god.

1/31/2006 1:40:09 PM

^ that too

^^ he died a few months ago

and i think you meant Kali--in that case, you may want to make a pilgrimage to the motherland

[Edited on January 31, 2006 at 1:44 PM. Reason : Kali]

1/31/2006 1:43:51 PM

fuck i did mean kali

1/31/2006 1:44:28 PM

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"Infact very few North Indians actually believe in Lord Venkateshwara."

You are a little bit wrong. It's not that he is not believed in North India. It's more like Venkateshwara is popular in south because, his holiest place is located in Southern India. But in the last 2-3 decades, we have seen that a lot of North Indian Marwari Industrialists (with origins in Rajasthan, a northwestern state) are building/donating to Venkateshwara temples. A good example would be the huge Birla Mandir in the Hyderabad City.

1/31/2006 5:32:02 PM

Didnt get your point?? so what temple was built in hyderabad? Lord venkateshwara is predominantly worshipped in the dravidian states.

1/31/2006 6:51:04 PM

the balaji temple is the first phase of an eventual 75-acre development... another temple and a community center are on the horizon. currently, we're planning heated floors in the interior of the temple pavilion as well as heated sidewalks around the perimeter for circumambulation... the shrine towers will be indianized and, if i can bump the budget by another mil, we'll have glass curtainwalls between all of the columns and a central skylight or clerestory... traditionally, south-indian temples were completely open-air outside the shrines, so this will relate back to that, while allowing the space to be more appropriately conditioned against cary's wonderful climate

1/31/2006 7:51:33 PM

^ that's some serious Laxmi status right there

1/31/2006 7:59:47 PM

thats what you get when you have a congregation made up of tech tycoons and doctors

1/31/2006 8:39:35 PM

why build such big temples for worship? why not provide to the community instead and build a smaller temple?

1/31/2006 9:04:54 PM

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"Didnt get your point?? so what temple was built in hyderabad? Lord venkateshwara is predominantly worshipped in the dravidian states."

The Birla Mandir is a Venkateshware Temple. The Birla family trust built it.

2/1/2006 12:22:26 AM

im hindu!! i was born in hyderabad india..i moved to the US around 6 years ago. I'm going back to visit this summer..cant wait :-D

2/1/2006 12:29:27 AM

ok, so the floor to ceiling glass ain't gonna happen due to privacy concerns during prayer... unless i can work out a decent translucent system... and the skylight is now a clerestory with indianization on top... but still should be a top notch temple... especially considering what you've got now

2/10/2006 12:05:53 AM