Temple Door

Temple Door
Originally uploaded by ninniane

Thiry-five/ Fifty-two 8.27.10 - 9.2.10

One of the places I've intended to go for the past few months is to the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago. Jenny and I have been collecting money on an altar, which we took to donate. They don't allow photographs inside the temple, but they said I was welcome to wander the grounds and take photos of the outside of the building. This is one of the doors to the Durga-Shiva-Ganesh temple. It was absolutely impossible to capture just how beautiful the place was, but I was particularly intrigued by the mandala painted on the ground in front of the door. I would like to paint something like that somewhere around my house some day.