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Stafford | February 26, 2006
Some immigrants take jobs most Americans don't want; others take jobs most Americans can't do. Few groups in this second category have been more successful than immigrants from India and their descendants, whose ranks are packed with physicians and engineers. And if one wants to observe Texas Indians at worship, it is hard to find a better place than the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, an astonishing example of traditional Hindu sacred architecture incongruously set in a 22-acre field surrounded by mass-market apartment complexes not far off South Main (U.S. 90A), near the Houston suburb of Stafford.
The mandir, or temple, is a wonder to behold, with its myriad domes, arches, pillars, walls, and ceilings covered with fantastically detailed marble representations of deities, flora, and fauns. Everything was hand carved in India by more than 2,400 artisans, then shipped to Houston in 33,000 pieces and fitted together in tongue-and-groove fashion like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, without a single piece of iron or...
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