Altars

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There are several small, open air Hindu temples, such as the one below, which is in a downtown business district. This allows people to make puja on their way to work, during a break, or after work. A friend asked the priest permission for me to take photos of him and his small temple. He agreed but then made a big show of my coming up to the altar wherein he put the red kum kum on my forehead.

In addition, most of the Hindu taxi drivers had little altars or shrines on their dashboards. Some were quite elaborate and fancy. At night, some of the dashboard altars had little lights, which made sense since it was quite unlikely that the taxi driver used his actual headlights.

Also, there were lots of roadside shrines and people in fact made good use of them.

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Photos

Jain Shrine
A small Jain Strine in the shadows of the General Post Office Building

Feeding Station
The small Jain shrine was part of a feeding station for cows and pigeons. The Jains ensured that the cows had plenty of grass and the pigeons had plenty of feed. Inside the fenced area are thousands of pigeons.

Comments

[cindy]

taxi altar
i love those little light-up altars. You can buy them on the street, esp around major temples.

[Kelly]

dioramas
Are you getting some inspirations for your dioramas?