Largest Hindu temple outside India in the modern era opens in central New Jersey

It took a combined total of about 4.7 million hours of work by artisans and volunteers to hand-carve about 2 million cubic feet of stone.

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Devotees bowed to each other and to monks in saffron robes.

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