Monthly Archives: May 2011

The Temple I visited is located in Flushing New York. I go visit queens very often to stay with my friends. Sometimes when they come back home from school, I visit them since I’m really close with their families. The Temple that they go to is Called Sri Maha Vallabha Ganapati Devasthanam. A lot of my friends also from Edison, Jamaica and Long Island go there. So I figured why not visit something familiar with them since they always go there. They are very big on the Youth and make sure that they are involved with the community. Sri Maha Vallabha Ganapati Devasthanamhas events all year around but some events are more signigicant to the youth. The Ones that are more for the youth to partake in and they come home from school for the weekend are Holi, Diwali, Rakhi day, and Rass Garba day. They are very big on making sure the kids are involved because they will be the ones making sure these events take place in the future. Since this is one of the Biggest Temples people come from all over the place to take roles to be part of the Administration at the Temple. These people are all volunteers and they do not get paid to take these roles. The structure is very clear cut and it is taken very seriously because they have an Executive Board, Board of Trustees, and Regular committee members. But just because you might have a small role in one of the committee doesn’t mean you play a big role in helping the community. They do a lot of community service also. Like during a natural Disaster in Gujarat, India they played a significant role in making sure the people in India were safe.