Grand Opening for Crawley Hindu Temple

May 26, 2010

Author: Staff Writer

Source: This is Crawley

http://www.thisissussex.co.uk/crawley/news/Grand-opening-Crawley-Hindu-temple/article-2212271-detail/article.html

A new Hindu temple has officially opened after almost a decade of planning and work.

The Sanatan Mandir, based at the Apple Tree Centre in Ifield, held its opening ceremony at the weekend.

The £4 million temple is the largest in the South East and worshippers took part in Pran Patishta, a three-day grand opening ceremony.

Bharat Lukka, trustee of Gurjar Hindu Union, which runs the temple, said: "We had a tremendous turnout. More than 3,000 people arrived on Sunday."