More than 10,000 devotees visited BAPS Hindu Mandir in Abu Dhabi on Sunday to celebrate its first ‘Patotsav’, the anniversary of its inauguration. A series of grand celebrations, mahapuja, and cultural performances were conducted to mark the occasion at the first traditional Hindu stone temple in the region.

The Patotsav is an auspicious date whereby sacred traditional rituals and ceremonies are invoked to honour and celebrate the anniversary of a temple’s Pran Pratishtha—consecration of deities.