By News18,Shankhyaneel Sarkar
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An Indian man who recently moved to the United Arab Emirates shared a video narrating his experience of witnessing a Ganga Aarti at the BAPS Swaminarayan Hindu Mandir.
The Ganga Aarti is a daily Hindu ritual of offering prayers to the sacred river Ganga, performed with lamps, chants, and hymns on riverbanks in India. It symbolizes gratitude, purification and devotion to the life-giving river.
24-year-old Akash Kawale documented his visit to the temple in a video and the video has resonated with many online. The video was recorded three weeks after he visited the UAE.
He captioned the video: “I witnessed Ganga Aarti in UAE”.
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The video offers a glimpse of the temple premises and rituals performed before the water body inside the temple. The video also showed how the temple preserves Indian culture abroad.
The BAPS Hindu Mandir in Abu Dhabi, inaugurated on February 14, 2024, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is the city’s first traditional Hindu temple. Made of pink sandstone and Italian marble, the temple follows classic Hindu architectural styles and symbolizes cultural harmony in the UAE.
Kawale in his video said that he visited the temple on his off-day and spending 14 days in the hotel. He added that the temple is frequented by many celebrities as well.
