DIWALI will be celebrated in Swindon at the Punjabi Community Centre.
The festival of lights is one of the biggest events in the Hindu calendar and is celebrated by thousands of people in Swindon and over a billion others around the world.
The usual festivities cannot be held at the town's Hindu temple because the council terminated the lease for the building on October 21, so a new venue has been found in the Punjabi Community Centre on Kembrey Street.
Pradeep Bhardwaj said: "This year, as we face the darkest of times for Swindon Hindu Temple with no place of our own which Hindus in Swindon can call our Mandir, Diwali assumes even greater significance for us to pray together to Goddess Mahalakshmi to remove all the darkness and illuminate our lives with radiant and eternal light."
The religious festival will be held from 6pm to 10pm tonight, with Goddess Lakshmi puja and Chopda puja, and tomorrow night, with Govardhan puja and Annakoot .
Light meals/prasadam will be served to the congregation on both days.
Email swindonhindutemple@gmail.com for more information.
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