We took a grab to get to this location. I was expecting plain glass like in windows. But this was what we saw. I guess if I had gotten what I expected it would have been very hot! Even still - with some fans it was quite warm inside.
This is what we saw from the outside. It looks like a small Hindu temple.
I have not seen a ticket pricing like this. Special rates if you are Hindu or if you are a foreigner - you pay more.
There claim to fame is that they were the first glass temple to be built.
Can you see the photographer in this photo.
These figures used to all be gold! Looks like they tried to modernize them.
All around the building were statues of humans that the Hindu's consider to be of divine incarnation.
This priest came up to me and asked who the two young girls with me were. I explained that they were my granddaughters and that I had three daughters. He said I was very lucky. I think he was referring to the belief that some Hindu's hold:
- Some traditions believe having only daughters (no sons) signifies the completion of ancestral karmic debt and purification of the lineage.
But he doesn't know that I have a daughter whose two sons still bear the Podolny name and will carry it forward. So maybe it is Alexis who is lucky!
Deciding where to go next.
There were three like this - speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil. Alexis called these the "cabbage patch" gods.
Reflections!
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