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Wilton Hindu temple celebrates Ratha-Yatra

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The Wilton Hindu Mandir Temple on Westport Road, celebrated Ratha-Yatra on Saturday, July 18. The annual festival is associated with the Hindu god Lord Jagannath.
Swami Balgopal, of the Wilton temple, said approximately 350 people attended Hindu Mandir’s Ratha-Yatra Festival, which began with an invoking ceremony in the morning, followed by a chariot-pulling.
The festival originated in the Puri district of Odisha, India, where Jagannath and two other deities — Balabhadra and Subhadra — are put in chariots and pulled from Lord Jagannath’s temple to the Gundicha Temple each year to celebrate Ratha-Yatra.
On Saturday, the Hindu Mandir Temple pulled the three deities down Westport Road, which was closed between 2 to 2:30.
Click here to learn more about the Wilton Hindu Mandir Temple.

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Kendra Baker

Kendra Baker is a reporter with the News-Times who previously worked as a general assignment reporter for The Wilton Bulletin. Before The Bulletin, Kendra freelanced for The Redding Pilot and interned for the New Haven Independent. She graduated from Southern Connecticut State University in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in psychology. Her work has also been published on ConnecticutHistory.org.