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Photograph of a large hall with pink walls and multicolored hanging banners, where a seated audience in white clothing fills the floor. Several people in white and yellow stand at framed portraits and deity pictures on draped altars, raising lit flames aloft, consistent with an aarti. A central figure in white holds a burning lamp at the middle altar. Ceiling fans and a wall clock are visible.

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A photograph of a large hall with a pink-washed back wall, where several men in white dhotis or white kurtas with yellow shawls stand at a row of framed deity pictures holding up lit oil lamps (aarti). Hanging colourful tasselled fabric banners decorate the walls. A large seated audience in white and orange garments fills the floor, with children in the foreground. Framed pictures on low saffron-draped tables show deity murti images, and a wall clock is visible. The scene suggests a group aarti or puja ceremony.2009-12-24A hall with a pink-washed wall and white ceiling drapes shows a seated congregation in white and orange-yellow clothing facing a ritual. Several white-clad priests with yellow shoulder cloths stand at the front, holding lit oil lamps aloft, while framed portraits and small altars with flowers and brass items line the back. A central standing figure in white holds an oil lamp, and a wall clock is visible above the altar area. Seated devotees in white and saffron sit on orange mats in rows, some with bags placed beside them, as the ceremony of lamp offerings unfolds.2009-12-24December 24 20092009-12-24December 24 20092009-12-24December 24 20092009-12-24A large hall with pink walls and orange-yellow hanging tassel banners hosts a seated crowd of many devotees, mostly in white clothes with some in orange and pink saris. Five men in white with yellow sashes raise lit oil lamps overhead toward the front, where a clock hangs on the back wall and framed deity pictures line the stage. Children sit in the foreground in colourful clothes. The scene looks like a satsang or arati ceremony with raised lamps. No person at the front can be confidently identified as a person from appearance.2009-12-24December 24 20092009-12-24December 23 20092009-12-23A photograph of a hall with pink walls, white ceiling drapes and ceiling fans, where a seated congregation in white and orange clothing faces a standing figure in a white dhoti and shawl who holds a lit lamp near a row of framed deity pictures on orange-draped altar tables. Other white-clothed attendants in yellow-striped shawls stand along the altar edges, and seated devotees fill the floor on orange mats. Brass oil lamps and offerings sit on the altars.2009-12-24December 24 20092009-12-24A large hall with pink walls and a white ceiling hung with colourful ribbon-and-tassel banners in yellow, red and blue. Hundreds of seated devotees fill the floor, mostly in white, yellow, orange and blue clothing, with many children in the foreground. At the far end, several robed figures in white and orange sit on raised platforms before rows of framed portraits on tables. A wall clock is visible above the stage area.2009-12-24A photograph of a large white tented hall during an aarti ceremony. Several men in white dhotis and white kurtas with yellow shawls and beaded necklaces stand at the front, holding brass lamps with lit flames aloft. Seated devotees in white clothes, some with yellow garlands, fill the floor, and a woman in a red and white sari with a beaded necklace sits center-front beside brass oil lamps and a lit flame. Hanging fabric lanterns with coloured panels decorate the ceiling, and a banner with text is visible on the back wall.2009-12-24