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Feast your eyes: Members of Metro's Swaminarayan Hindu Temple last weekend offered up 300 dishes to the gods to celebrate the New Year
Feast your eyes: Members of Metro's Swaminarayan Hindu Temple last weekend offered up 300 dishes to the gods to celebrate the New Year

Feast your eyes: Members of Metro's Swaminarayan Hindu Temple last weekend offered up 300 dishes to the gods to celebrate the New Year

Date10/25/1992
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Original Toronto Star caption: Feast your eyes: Members of Metro's Swaminarayan Hindu Temple last weekend offered up 300 dishes to the gods to celebrate the New Year.
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