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BAPS Hindu Mandir Gives 10,000 Handmade Rakhis to Workers and Residents, Abu Dhabi, UAE

7 Aug 2022

Special Prayers On The Occasion of Rakshabandhan at the BAPS Hindu Mandir

Busloads of 4,000 workers arrive at the mandir parking

Volunteers provide facilities for shoes

Youth volunteers welcome all by applying chandlo

Workers are welcomed to the mandir site with thematic decorations to celebrate the festival of Rakshabandhan

Raksha Bandhan Celebration, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Assortment of festival hymns sung by Nandagovindam Group

A packed assembly

Audience enjoying the celebrations

Audience engrossed in the assembly

Audience enjoying the celebrations

Audience engrossed in the celebrations

Guests engaged in assembly

Swami Brahmaviharidas addresses the assembly

Swami Brahmaviharidas highlights the atmosphere of great love and equality and offers his prayers for everyone who calls UAE their home

Swami Brahmaviharidas puts a chandlo on Vignesh Vijayakumar, President SRI Global FZ

Swami Brahmaviharidas and guests perform Arti

Guests engaged in Arti

Swamis extend blessings to all the workers

Volunteers gift caps to the workers

Handmade Rakhis by the female volunteers of BAPS Hindu Mandir, alongside artistic packets of prasad

Swami Brahmaviharidas ceremonially ties a rakhi to a child

Swami Brahmaviharidas ties a rakhi on Mr. Ashwani Kumar, Journalist with Khaleej Times

Swami Brahmaviharidas ties a rakhi to Vignesh Vijayakumar, President SRI Global FZ

Swami Brahmaviharidas ties a rakhi to a guest

Swami Brahmaviharidas ties a rakhi to Vinayak Kamath, Asst. Vice President at Shapoorji Pallonji, Abu Dhabi

Swami Brahmaviharidas ties rakhis to well-wishers and workers

Swami Brahmaviharidas applies chandlo to children

Swami Brahmaviharidas applies chandlo to Batchu Sagar, Vice President and Country Head at Shapoorji Pallonji

Volunteers ties rakhis on each guest’s hand

BAPS Women’s wing expressing the joy of gifting thousands of handmade rakhis to each worker and guest

More than 100 volunteers helped orchestrate the memorable evening

Guests participate in the brick by brick pujan ceremony

Workers walk up to the construction site to place a brick with their own hands

Workers arrive on the mandir plinth to place a brick with their own hands

Workers admiring the temple’s majesty from far

Volunteers distribute prasad to workers

Balaks distribute prasad to workers

Busloads of 4,000 workers arrive at the mandir parking

Volunteers provide facilities for shoes

Youth volunteers welcome all by applying chandlo

Workers are welcomed to the mandir site with thematic decorations to celebrate the festival of Rakshabandhan

Raksha Bandhan Celebration, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Assortment of festival hymns sung by Nandagovindam Group

A packed assembly

Audience enjoying the celebrations

Audience engrossed in the assembly

Audience enjoying the celebrations

Audience engrossed in the celebrations

Guests engaged in assembly

Swami Brahmaviharidas addresses the assembly

Swami Brahmaviharidas highlights the atmosphere of great love and equality and offers his prayers for everyone who calls UAE their home

Swami Brahmaviharidas puts a chandlo on Vignesh Vijayakumar, President SRI Global FZ

Swami Brahmaviharidas and guests perform Arti

Guests engaged in Arti

Swamis extend blessings to all the workers

Volunteers gift caps to the workers

Handmade Rakhis by the female volunteers of BAPS Hindu Mandir, alongside artistic packets of prasad

Swami Brahmaviharidas ceremonially ties a rakhi to a child

Swami Brahmaviharidas ties a rakhi on Mr. Ashwani Kumar, Journalist with Khaleej Times

Swami Brahmaviharidas ties a rakhi to Vignesh Vijayakumar, President SRI Global FZ

Swami Brahmaviharidas ties a rakhi to a guest

Swami Brahmaviharidas ties a rakhi to Vinayak Kamath, Asst. Vice President at Shapoorji Pallonji, Abu Dhabi

Swami Brahmaviharidas ties rakhis to well-wishers and workers

Swami Brahmaviharidas applies chandlo to children

Swami Brahmaviharidas applies chandlo to Batchu Sagar, Vice President and Country Head at Shapoorji Pallonji

Volunteers ties rakhis on each guest’s hand

BAPS Women’s wing expressing the joy of gifting thousands of handmade rakhis to each worker and guest

More than 100 volunteers helped orchestrate the memorable evening

Guests participate in the brick by brick pujan ceremony

Workers walk up to the construction site to place a brick with their own hands

Workers arrive on the mandir plinth to place a brick with their own hands

Workers admiring the temple’s majesty from far

Volunteers distribute prasad to workers

Balaks distribute prasad to workers