Source: The Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04123/308764.stm
On May 2, 2004 The Post-Gazette reported, "On this tree-ringed hill in Monroeville, inside the exotically sculpted red stone edifice that is the Jain Temple, all is peaceful and incense perfumed. No people are evident, save for the chanting seeping from behind the carved wooden doors of one of the five mini temples. Inside it, a priest is performing the morning ritual of bathing, dressing and feeding two of the deities who "live" here... Aarti (a spiritual wake-up call) is performed morning and night, seven days a week, and has been every day of every year for two decades since this temple was dedicated. (The temple goes back farther, to 1971, when the idea for it was conceived in the basement of an Indian store in Squirrel Hill.) The temple will celebrate this 20th anniversary on Saturday with a number of special ceremonies, including a dramatic mahayagna -- a holy fire offering -- for world peace."