TEMPLE, TEXAS, June 2, 2007: (HPI note: Temple, Texas, was so named in 1881.) The Hindu Temple of Central Texas will celebrate their Kumbhabhishekam June 8 – 10. Event begin at 6:30 a.m., Friday, June 8, with Vighneswara Puja. The temple’s Rajagopuram and Hanuman shrine will be formally dedicated during the three day celebration. The temple opened it’s doors for the devotees on December 9, 2001. The initial Kumbhabhishekam was performed in the month of February, 2003, in which the main Deity, Ganesha, and the other Deities were installed following the ancient practices in the Agama Sastras. The temple’s priests, Sri Sreeram Hariharan and Sri Venugopal Dittakavi as well as Sri Thanga Bhattar, Chief Priest of the New Orleans Hindu Temple, will be the officiating priest and assisted by Sri Koteshwaran Gurukkal from the Ganesha Temple in Nashville, Tennessee. A detailed program for the three days is available on the temple’s website above.
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