BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, San Francisco — Attraction in San Francisco

One of the famous Hindu religion's Swaminarayan temple. Great place for meditation, if you go early in the morning. The temple itself is work of art and you can really see the artistic talent it must have taken to designed it. They've a building with devotion education as well. In addition, they've knowledge base small museum type facility, which houses many great Indian innovation, and information on how they came about. There is facility where they sell Indian groceries and other items. The store also sells cooked in house items, which are of great quality and healthy. Keep in mind the food cooked and sold here are onion and garlic free. They also have buffet lunch and dinner which is of great quality for fraction of a restaurant price. The store also has great Indian street food delicacy in...

This is an excellent Hindu mandir. It is a great place to visit around Hindu festivals, especially Diwali. They have regular programs for children, young professionals, older men & older women. Many times in the year, the santos (saints - those who have taken vows to be in the BAPS order) visit. The murtis (icons) inside the mandir represent various divinities holy to Hindus. They have people who can explain Hinduism to you. They also have a store to purchase material about Hinduism, to practice Hinduism, & vegetarian food items & general groceries. This temple is part of the BAPS Hindu sampradaya (sect). Their Milpitas temple is larger. The Chino Hills, CA temple that is opening Dec 2012 is a mega temple with authentic Hindu temple...

Wanted to visit the temple on 2020 Haribodhini Ekadashi as our 77 years mother wanted to visit some Hindu temple, called them to check if they were open during Covid-19 pandemic, the priest responded saying the temple was closed but he could help to visit from the curbside. We went there and called from outside maintaining social distancing, priest opened the main entrance turned the lights on to allow us for worship. My mother was very happy...