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Eastern Mind
Vannakkam Jodhaa: Here in the west, many temples and communities are 'amalgamated' temples. This generally happened out of necessity financially, because each group couldn't afford to build their own temple.
I'm not sure of the outcome yet though. Time will tell. There is a sense of loss in the process. I remember a small town where I grew up where the non-Catholic denominations amalgamated in Christianity. Nobody was really happy with it, as many people thought they lost something in this process, and some dropped out entirely.
So time will tell where you are. Right now, although they won't say it publicly out of politeness, I suspect there are many at your temple that go there simply because there is nowhere else to go. They would prefer a temple 'just like the one back home' but since that's impossible, this place will have to do ... for now. Then often in larger centers more temples do get built.
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