Mumba Devi Fire

Photographer: Mim Landry
From: Odds and Ends

Mumba Devi Fire

Just inside the gate of the Mumba Devi Hindu temple, is a structure containing lamps with flames. In Hindu rites, Arti is the waving of lighted lamps before an image of a god or a person to be honoured. In performing the rite, the worshiper circles the lamp three times in a clockwise direction while chanting a prayer or singing a hymn. Arti is one of the most frequently observed parts of both temple and private worship.