Source: Thaindian News/ANI
The Rajdhani Mandir (temple) in Virginias suburban Fairfax County, is in the eye of the storm, not because of religion, race or immigration, but parking.
The temple has attracted the negative attention of county zoning officials following complaints by people in the neighbourhood regarding parking problems caused by rituals performed twice a day from Monday to Saturday, and thrice on Sunday.
This temple for Hindus is now facing closure. The situation has become so volatile that county leaders threatened last week to shut down the temple if members don”t get the parking under control, temple leaders said.
The problem is this: The high-tech boom and explosion in immigrants coming to the D.C. area from India have pushed the number of devotees coming to the temple far beyond anything the original builders could have imagined when they began constructing a temple for 250 people in 1998.
So, with only 87 parking spaces and sometimes hundreds if not thousands of worshipers coming and going throughout the day, many wind up parking in the neighborhood.