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rumana husain | October 28, 2008 at 09:38 am
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The place resounded with the sound of devotional songs, temple bells and loud firecrackers. All around, there was illumination. I attended the Diwali celebrations at the Swaminarayan temple a short while ago. It is located in the heart of Karachi's old city area, on M. A. Jinnah Road, across the imposing colonial Municipal Corporation building. There are hundreds of houses around this temple, inhabited by some of Karachi’s Hindu population. Pakistan has approximately 3 million Hindus. Diwali is celebrated with fervour. There are many temples in the city but there is only one Lord Swaminarayan temple in the entire country. This was constructed in 1849. Tonight the hustle bustle in and around the temple is a mixture of Hindus congregating here for worship as well as several media persons converging here to record the various activities.
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Diwali in Karachi
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at 09:42 on October 28th, 2008
rumana husain, I like this story. It's good stuff.
See additional NowPublic coverage of Diwali here: http://my.nowpublic.com/culture/diwali-festival-lights-celebrations-october-28th
at 09:42 on October 28th, 2008
rumana husain, lovely write-up and photos.
at 09:45 on October 28th, 2008
thank you jarret. i flagged your story and then went out to one of the temples in the city, here in karachi. rachel, thanks! glad you like the photos.
at 10:50 on October 28th, 2008
rumana husain, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 15:54 on October 28th, 2008
rumana husain, sounds lovely. Thanks for the photos as well.
at 20:04 on October 28th, 2008
rahul, amyjudd and luiz castro, thank you for your gs flags.
at 20:15 on October 28th, 2008
rumana husain, I like this story. It's good stuff. Thanks for sharing the news & photos of celebration in our neighbourhood.
at 17:01 on October 30th, 2008
rumana husain, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 18:56 on October 30th, 2008
wiley beacham, thank you for the visit and the gs flag, and you are welcome sanjay.
at 07:48 on December 28th, 2008
rumanaji, i am really very much thankful to you for showing me such nice photographs of swaminarayan temple, i am longing to see photographs of idols of deites inside the temple. i have collected at about 14-15 photographs from the net. i need more as this temple is appearing in my dreams !!. pl. favour me. ---your brother, kanu zala.
at 04:26 on January 4th, 2009
Please write articles like this.This is the only way for us to get information of hindus and hindu temples of Pakistan
at 00:09 on January 13th, 2009
kanu zala (not verified) and arijit roy (not verified) thank you for your comments and for the visit but kanu i regret that no more photos of dieties is possible for me as going there with a camera to take pictures on a 'normal' day is not allowed.