(RNS) — Over the weekend, my family celebrated our son’s birthday at the BAPS Swaminarayan mandir in Robbinsville, New Jersey. We chose the temple for a variety of reasons, including the ease of ...

Our tour of pagodas and temples starts in Thailand’s Nakhon Pathom province, not far from Bangkok. There Wat Sam Phran, also known as the Dragon Temple, is an extravagant Buddhist temple and one of ...

The answer to this question really depends on whom you ask. One Wikipedia article defined “temples” as basically any house of worship and, therefore, categorized just about any building used by a ...

The prasadam controversy in Tirupati, regardless of political motivation, eroded devotees’ trust in holy sites. Temples have long been political tools, fuelling calls to free Hindu temples from ...

In 1902, five years before India’s largest iron and steel plant was established, its founder, Jamsetji N. Tata, in a letter to his son Dorab, wrote about his vision for a city for its workers. “Be ...