Senior Writer
Neeraj Khanna is a Senior Writer at ProperPandit with 8 years of practice and study of Hindu traditions. He writes the visit guides to Hindu temples abroad, from London and Toronto to Sydney and the United States, for families keeping their traditions far from home. He contributes independently and also works in another professional field.
Terms & traditions
The Sydney Murugan Temple at 217 Great Western Highway, Mays Hill, opens 7 am to 8.30 pm (9.30 pm on Fridays). Its conditions of entry ask for no photos, no phones, shoes and hats off, and recommend cultural dress.
Terms & traditions
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir at 61 Claireville Drive, Toronto, is free to enter. BAPS's official timings page, checked on 21 Oct 2026, lists the campus as open 9 am to 6:30 pm, with Rajbhog Arti at 11:15 am and Sandhya Arti at 6:30 pm. The complex has a stone mandir, a carved wooden haveli and a heritage museum.
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Every visitor to the BAPS Hindu Mandir in Abu Dhabi must pre-register individually on mandir.ae, and only after arriving in the UAE. Bring a physical Emirates ID or passport. The mandir is closed on Mondays and open 9 am to 8 pm Tuesday to Sunday, with an evening Ganga Aarti.
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The Ganesh Temple at 45-57 Bowne Street, Flushing, is open 8:00 am to 8:30 pm on weekdays and 7:30 am to 8:30 pm at weekends, with a canteen open daily from 8:30 am. Here is what the temple's own pages say about dress, phones, parking, the daily pooja schedule and booking a service.
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Highgate Hill Murugan Temple on Archway Road is open every day, 8 am to 2 pm and 5 pm to 9 pm, with poojas in the morning and from 5 pm to 8 pm. Abisekams are booked through the temple office. Here is what its official site says, what it leaves out, and how East Ham's Murugan temple differs.
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The Malibu Hindu Temple sits at 1600 Las Virgenes Canyon Road in Calabasas, California. It is open 9 am to 12:30 pm and 5 to 8 pm on weekdays and 9 am to 8 pm at weekends, and its canteen serves saatvik South Indian food made without onion or garlic.
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BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Neasden is free to visit, open 9 am to 6 pm every day, and needs no booking for individuals and families. Visitors are welcome at the 11:45 am Rajbhog Arti. Shoulders and upper arms must be covered, and no photos are allowed inside.
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The Shiva-Vishnu Temple in Livermore, California, run by the Hindu Community and Cultural Center (HCCC), houses Shiva and Vishnu shrines under one roof. Its schedule showed 9 am to 8 pm on Fridays and weekends, and 9 am to noon plus 6 to 8 pm on other weekdays. Photography inside is prohibited.
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The Sri Venkateswara (SV) Temple in Penn Hills, Pittsburgh, consecrated in November 1976, is one of the earliest traditional Hindu temples in the United States. Darshan needs no appointment, there is a dress code for visitors aged 12 and up, and pujas can be booked online even if you cannot attend.
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Darshan at Shirdi is free in the general queue. Paid darshan and aarti passes are sold only on the trust's own portal, its app and its counters, and the trust says it authorises no agents. Here is how passes, ID checks, aarti booking and the age rules work.
