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Indian Cultural and Religious
Center
Smyrna, Georgia
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The Indian Cultural and Religious Center functions as a meeting place
and auditorium for the Indian American Cultural Association in metropolitan
Atlanta. A temple is located on the second floor in the back corner
of the building. When I visited this temple on a Friday evening, the priest
was lighting incense and clarified butter in service to the images.
The images in the temple, including Shiva and Parvati, Rama and Sita, Durga,
Hanuman, Radha-Krishna, Ganesh, Vishnu, and a Shivlingam, were on a raised
platform, surrounded on three sides by walls of etched glass. Many
flowers, both artificial and live, adorned the image platform. At
that time, no devotees besides the priest were present. The priest
explained that this was unusual and probably related to the significant
South Asian events occurring in Atlanta that weekend. For example,
in the auditorium downstairs, volunteers from the Bengali Association were
preparing for a special Durga Puja, the worship of the Goddess Durga, that
hundreds of Bengalis attended over the next two days.
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Last updated by Steven Ramey
2 March 1999