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Hindu Temple of St. Louis
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I visited to the Hindu Temple of St. Louis in the West County twice. The first time was on the weekend, and the second time was on a weekday. The priests said that they were too busy on the weekend and couldn’t show me around because there were too many people who came to the temple on the weekend. He told me if I want I can come back on the weekday. I decided to go home and come back on the next Tuesday because I needed somebody to show me around and explain their religion. I located this temple very easily because I saw the sign beside the road. The first thing that caught my eyes was the big white temple. I later was told by the priest that the white color of the building represents purity and all the carvings outside the building were just decoration. The temple was divided into three parts. Two small buildings were side by side of the main building. They were symmetrical to the main building. There were five goddesses and two animals on the walls of the two small buildings. They were carved on the wall. I asked the priest later what they represented, and he told me they were just decoration. The main building sat between the two small buildings. There was a big door in the main building, but that door was never used. There were many carvings on the big building too. They were there just to make the temple looks more like a sacred place of the Hindus. I turned my face upward so I could see the top of the main building. There were seven golden crowns at the top. I wondered what those seven golden crowns were representing; so I jotted that down to remind me to ask the priest. Later the priest told me that the seven golden crowns served as a transmitter. They transmit the gods and goddesses messages in the temple to the whole city, and take the voice of the Hindus from their home to gods and goddesses. I came inside the temple by the right side door. The first thing that I saw was a small room for people to put their shoes. A sign on the wall said, “Please Put Your Shoes Here.” Because upstairs is a place where they worship gods and goddesses, so there must be no dirt.
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