LONDON: When a Hindu charity discovered it could bid for a piece of land allocated for faith/community use in the new town of Northstowe in Cambridgeshire, the 150 Indian-origin Hindu families living there were thrilled as there is no Hindu temple for 40 miles, leaving them and thousands of Indian-origin Hindus living around Cambridge working in tech, science, at the hospital and university, with nowhere to worship.
Aparna Nigam-Saxena, project lead for Hindu Samaj Northstowe (HSN), was shocked when she moved to Northstowe and discovered no Hindu temple in the whole of Cambridgeshire. Hindu families initially met up in each other’s gardens to celebrate festivals and now they hire spaces, but many will not allow Hindu rituals.
