INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, June 7, 2015 (Indy Star): Nearly 5,000 people went to the Hindu Temple of Central Indiana on Sunday for the final day of an inauguration event for the temple’s $10 million expansion. From Wednesday to Sunday, ceremonies were held to consecrate the new space. Aided by cranes and scaffolding, priests on Sunday blessed the stone sculpture Deities. The thousands of people watching from the ground cheered and waved as a helicopter hovered above the temple, dropping flowers and holy water.
The Hindu Temple of Central Indiana originally opened in 2006, providing a place of worship for devotees throughout the Midwest. Indiana now has other temples, including ones in Avon, Merrillville, Lafayette and Fort Wayne. The expansion adds a worship hall that includes 17 shrines, and a skylight surrounded by four new carved towers.
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