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A large crowd of seated devotees fills the foreground of a temple hall during a ceremony at the Nithyanandeshwara Hindu Temple in Los Angeles. Many attendees wear white, cream and saffron clothing, and several women wear sarees in blue, teal, pink and purple. Beyond them, a golden arched frame surrounds a dark sanctum, and a central altar holds a deity murti with a crown and decorated garlands beneath a patterned arch. Brass lamps and a kalasha sit on the altar, with tall decorative hangings above. On the right, a figure in orange robes sits near an ornate silver-and-gold seat. A man in white stands at left beside a camera on a tripod. A figure in a saffron robe sits at right near the altar. Faces are too small to describe reliably, and this scene shows a puja or darshan gathering.

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