The Pluralism Project at Harvard University

Benjamin Zeller

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Mapping the Hindu Community in North-Central North Carolina

 

Project Description

The past two decades have seen a massive growth in the size of the South Asian community in North-Central North Carolina. This project will document the various Hindu and Sikh worship centers, community locales, and associations that operate in this region, a nine county area between the foothills of the Appalachians and the coastal Sand Hills. Temple profiles and ethnographic studies will be produced.

Mapping South Asian Religious Communities in North-Central North Carolina

Dr. Yaakov Ariel is the faculty sponsor for this research.

Center Profiles

Hindu Society of North Carolina / Hindu Bhavan, Morrisville, NC (Hindu)

New Goloka Temple (ISKCON of North Carolina), Hillsborough, NC (Hindu)

Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (BAPS), Morrisville, NC (Hindu)

Sri Venkateswara Temple, Cary, NC (Hindu)

Jain Study Center of North Carolina (Raleigh), Raleigh, NC (Jain)

Atlantic Coast Sikh Association, Durham, NC (Sikh)

Sikh Gurudwara of North Carolina, Inc., Durham, NC (Sikh)