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  • Wembley, United Kingdom: The construction of the Shree Sanatan Mandir, a Hindu temple in northwest London, was completed after fourteen years and £16 million, utilizing artisans and laborers from India
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  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: The 43-meter statue of Lord Murugan, built in 2006, sits at the base of Batu Caves, a mountaintop complex that houses a collection of temples and shrines first built by Indian laborers in the 1890s
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  • The Taleju Temple, built in 1564 in Kathmandu’s Durbar Square, suffered only minor damage during the earthquake.
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  • Mahankaal Temple, Kathmandu
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  • Leicester, United Kingdom: Men play cards at a luncheon club for the elderly, most of whom are from North India and East Africa, which meets weekly at a Hindu temple.
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  • Woolgoolga, Australia | 2011<br />
Sikhs gather for a wedding at the Guru Nanak Temple. Woolgoolga is home to the largest Sikh community in Australia, many of whom are banana growers. Sikhs took up banana farming in Australia in the 1940s when mechanization came to the sugar cane industry in Queensland, where many of them had worked as laborers. Today, the Sikh community in Woolgoolga is prosperous, having diversified into blueberries, hydroponic vegetables, and other business ventures.
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  • Manhattan: New Yorkers gather in Union Square for a vigil in support of the victims of the shooting at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
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  • Alagar Koyil, India: Bathers at Noopura Gangai in the Pazhamudircholai temple north of Madurai.
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  • Pearland, Texas: With the priest, brother-in-law Ananth Shankar, and niece Rukmini, Hema Ramaswamy participates in the Hindu ceremonies on stage to mark her father's 60th birthday at the Meenakshi temple on May 9, 2014.
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  • Pearland, Texas: Hema Ramaswamy wears a half-sari to her niece's birthday function at the Meenaskshi temple on May 10, 2014.
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  • Mentakab, Malaysia: A British-educated labor lawyer in private practice, A. Sivanesan speaks in temples throughout peninsular Malaysia to raise money for the families of five Hindu activists who were jailed under the Internal Security Act and to encourage Indians and other minorities to stand up for their rights. He later won a seat in parliament as a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), Malaysia’s largest secular minority party.
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  • Men search for crawfish in the Bagmati river. Sacred to Buddhists and Hindus, the river flows among Kathmandu’s temples, bathing areas, and cremation platforms.
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  • Baikuntha Manandhar (center), four-time Olympian and gold medalist in the South Asian Games, prepares for the Marathon for Peace to raise awareness for women’s and children’s justice and to show that Nepal is safe for tourists. According to UNICEF, human traffickers targeted desperately poor families to give up their children after the earthquake. Manandhar and a group of runners began at Bhaktapur Durbar Square, among the damaged temples, and continued to Kathmandu and Patan.
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