RENO, NEVADA, October 14, 2011 (kolotv): Sunday marks a significant landmark for northern Nevada’s Hindu community, the grounbreaking for the first temple of their faith at this end of the state. The area’s 600 Hindu families have been making do with worship in private homes and, for the past couple of years, in rental space in an office building on Gentry Way.
The makeshift temple has served as a gathering spot for local Hindus, but the new building which will include a sanctuary, meeting space, a garden and classrooms will do a lot more. “We should have our own building,” says Templel Priest Dinesh Sidher, “where we can go every day for our religious and cultural functions so we can show our kids what we believe in.”
The new temple building itself will reflect that culture. It also marks an accomplishment for the small community which has been planning and raising money for construction for seven years.