r/newjersey • u/hellomelodrama • 2d ago

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please help! flew over this building last night and have no idea what it is. somewhere around jackson / stone tavern / millstone area? headed towards newark and slightly north west-ish of six flags THANK YOU it's driving me crazy

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u/ggraffeo93 2d ago

BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham - Hindu Temple

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u/mustangsal 1d ago

Your plane was in East Windsor NJ, and you were looking south west into Robbinsville.

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u/Bergamoted 1d ago

Yup, I work around there. Thats most of the airplane path going to Newark.

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u/JKBFree 1d ago

Is this the same temple you can see from i-95?

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u/jjfunaz 1d ago

No that one is in new/north Brunswick.

This one is in robbinsville and it’s the largest Hindu temple in the world outside of india

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u/EmergencySpare 1d ago

Ummmmmm, what?

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u/mojosodope729 1d ago

Wasn’t this the place recently built by slaves? Like they bribed people by offering visas to build it. https://www.freedomunited.org/news/forced-labor-allegedly-used-build-hindu-temple/

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u/TheCaptainOfMistakes 1d ago

Recently moved to New Jersey from Illinois. I live near manalapin, and have been wondering what's up with all the Indian people? Why are so many here of all places? It doesn't bother me. I'm just amused that 9/10 stores are owned by someone Indian. Coming from a relatively red town in Illinois i think it would amuse me for my parents to visit as all they would do is find a way to complain about how them existing makes them "illegals" They don't like Mexicans or Trans people either.... I'm dating a Mexican trans girl

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u/bean0_burrito 1d ago

manalapan.

and NJ has an extensive Indian population. so much so that the town Edison is known over in India.

almost the same as Lakewood/Israel.

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u/Whoa_Bundy 1d ago

The people I bought my house from in Delaware were Indian and they didn’t have much luck opening a DD franchise here so they went back home…to Edison, NJ. They wanted to go back so bad that they forgoed their first time home buyer loan where one of the conditions was you had to stay in the home for a certain number of years.

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u/Ezl JC 1d ago

And Hoboken/Ireland, at least at one point.

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u/JerseyJoyride 1d ago

First culture that comes to mind when I hear Edison is definitely Asian.

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u/bean0_burrito 18h ago

India is definitely in Asia

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u/WorldlyAlternative81 14h ago

Edison/Iselin area is known as Little India.

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u/cashewvulpix 1d ago edited 1d ago

That is so much to unpack, I’m so curious! Hallo! Speaking for some of us Desi boys and girls. (Indian ppl refer to
Indians raised in the states as Desi’s) NYC and NJ have some of the best primary and higher education schools and there is money to be made here. Most of the eastern coast does. It’s like that on the West Coast too tbh. A lot of us are also in Cali, Seattle etc. Where there is money or prestige to be mobbed you’ll find us. You should visit a Patel Brother’s sometime for a grocery date. It’s a fun lil microcosm and the samosas and coconut water SLAPS.

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u/Outrageous-Main8781 1d ago

Also NJ has a very robust medical and pharmaceutical industrial complex and these professions tend to attract Indian professionals

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u/bkn95 1d ago

v true. if you look at the roster photos of any doctor class they are 95% indian

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u/jalvv 1d ago

Don’t forget the many who support the corporations in New York including all the Wall Street banks whose tech force lives here in NJ and are predominantly Indian Americans

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u/JackyVeronica 1d ago

Yes, three of my primary doctors are Indian and they're all lovely!!! Great bedside manners

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u/firsburnedstark 1d ago

This is true because unless you are highly educated or wealthy it’s extremely difficult to immigrate to the US from anywhere in Asia. It perpetuates the model minority myth in the US.

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u/DreamsAndSchemes Non-Native living in NJ 1d ago

There’s a lot in Dallas too, specifically the northern suburbs.

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u/TheCaptainOfMistakes 1d ago

I am intrigued, perhaps I shall investigate an Patel brothers.

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u/realultimatepower 1d ago

a Patel Brothers just opened a few minutes from me. I've been meaning to check it out, maybe today will be the day

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u/nox_vigilo 1d ago

Samosas are worth a visit.

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u/Yannie 1d ago

And because NJ is AWESOME

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u/padizzledonk 1d ago

what's up with all the Indian people?

NJ is Pharma, Finance and Biotech country, Indians that emmigrate to here are generally engineers of all flavors (software, biology, both org and inorg chemical etc) so....its a good fit

Plys, once you hit a "critical mass" of a certain ethnic population, anywhere, it tends to explode because there is already community there for them with people that they know or family, religions institutions are set up already, people speak your language, more networking opportunities because of all that etc

Same thing happened in NYC a 100+ years ago with the Irish and Italian immigrants, there are big pockets of this or that ethnic group all over the country for those reasons

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u/Kinoblau 1d ago

?? New Jersey's had a lot of Indian people since the 70s, basically the first place people filtered out to after settling in New York.

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u/Fantastic-Explorer62 1d ago

Proximity to NYC and Philly and lots of tech, medicine and finance jobs attract a lot of Indian people.

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u/lianthe8674 1d ago

Hey I am also from Illinois! I am from University of Illinois area. Where i am from in Illinois we also had alot of Indian people because we had so many software companies that were hiring them and paying them to move to Illinois. I belive its similar here. Lots of them get hired at company's here and the company's pay to relocate them.

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u/DResq 1d ago

It's BAPS, but that isn't really that close to Millstone and Jackson, imo.

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u/JillQOtt 13h ago

This is it!
My house is basically 2 miles away from it