During all ritual events, initiates chant along in Sanskrit–with various levels of proficiency–and perform intricate mudras (hand and body gestures), making the event seem more like a choreographed worship-dance than the conventional solo priestly performance. Yet it is not unusual on any given day for an initiated (by Chaithanyananda) male or female to perform the rite instead. Chaithanyananda periodically introduced new Deities into the tiny temple, so people used to joke that if he kept this up, there would be no more room for the devotees.Ĭhaithanyananda conducts elaborate pujas, once in the morning and again in the afternoon and evening. Even on ordinary days the temple was becoming crowded, and not just with humans. While worshipping at their most recent home temple–a one-car garage in a suburb outside Rochester–they knew it was time to expand when approximately 150 cars lined the neighborhood streets during Navaratri. The Sri Rajarajeshwari temple is an outgrowth of several home temples run by Chaithanyananda and Gnanamba, first in Zambia, and later in the US. In Zambia, where he worked as an architect, he found his iconoclast guru, nuclear physicist Sri Amrithananda, who not only agreed to initiate him and his wife but gave him orders, by way of guru diksa, to teach Sri Vidya to anyone desiring to learn. He brings with him to Rush the ancient practice of Sri Vidya, a tradition of Devi worship which, he discovered at age 10, had been part of his family for generations before it was abandoned. In the early 1800s, the region was so consumed with the fire of the Spirit that it was dubbed the "Burned-over District." But whereas then the Spirit was Christian, today the fire burns among Hindus.įueling the Spirit's flames at the Peetham are the philosophies and traditions espoused by Chaithanyananda. Surrounded by farm silos and church steeples, the Peetham is headed by Sri Chaithanyananda and his wife, Sri Gnanamba, both Sri Lankan Tamils. Set into the hills of Rush, a village just south of Rochester, is the Sri Rajarajeshwari Peetham.
#RAJARAJESHWARI TEMPLE ROCHESTER NY CODE#
Dress code applies equally to men and women:įor Men: veshti, Kurta pajamas, or long pants.įor Ladies: Sari, Half Sari, Salwar kameez, Pants or long skirt.Nestled in a nondescript renovated barn in rural western New York State, the Hindu Goddess Rajarajeshwari is renewing the kind of religious fervor that this area was once famous for.
#RAJARAJESHWARI TEMPLE ROCHESTER NY FULL#
ON full moon days Sri Chakra Navavarana Pooja or Navavarana Homam is performed. Special Pradosha Puja 2 times in a month on Pradosham Daily pooja schedule is as follows.ĩ:30 AM Sri Sukta Shodasopachara and Sannidhi Pujaġ2:30 PM Lalita Sahasranama and Sannidhi Pujaĩ:30 AM Saturday Abhishekam and Homam Programġ0:00 AM Sri Sukta Shodasopachara and Sannidhi Puja Pooja is performed three times every day. Following are the Canadian and USA holidays: New York Sri Vidya Temple Timings:Ĩ:30 AM to 2:30 PM and 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM.Ĩ:30 AM to 9:00 PM. Other sub-shrines are Nataraja with Sivakama Sundari, Navagrahas, Bhairava, Dattatreya Swamy, Ardhanariswara Swamy, Skanda with Valli and Devayani, Utsava Ganapati and Utsava Devi. Lord Ganesha, Sri Rajarajeswari and Lord Siva are the main deities. Sri Chaitanyananda is the Temple founder and Peetadhipati. This temple is dedicated to Goddess Raja Rajeswari Devi. The Sri Rajarajeswari Peetam is also known as Sri Vidya Temple is located in Rush, New York.
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