Ratha Yatra

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives

Date: September 12 2010; 2010-09-12 Material: Color photographs Dimension: 300 ppi

Creator: James Wrona Identifier: aql:19541 wrona-03-0716 wrona-03-0716.tif

Description: At the Ratha Yatra procession ("Car Festival") held in Flushing, Queens, devotees pull the Ratha, a 16-foot long silver carriage. The carriage is actually motorized due to its enormous weight, but devotees also pull it along the route with the ropes. Priests ride atop the carriage, receiving offerings of fruit and flowers which they bless and send back into the crowd. The procession marks the climax of the annual nine-day festival called Sri Ganesa Chaturthi, held to celebrate the elephant-headed Hindu deity, Ganesh, the primary god worshiped at this particular temple.

Title : Ratha Yatra

Collection : aql:13844

Creator : James Wrona

Date : September 12 2010; 2010-09-12

Summary/Description : At the Ratha Yatra procession ("Car Festival") held in Flushing, Queens, devotees pull the Ratha, a 16-foot long silver carriage. The carriage is actually motorized due to its enormous weight, but devotees also pull it along the route with the ropes. Priests ride atop the carriage, receiving offerings of fruit and flowers which they bless and send back into the crowd. The procession marks the climax of the annual nine-day festival called Sri Ganesa Chaturthi, held to celebrate the elephant-headed Hindu deity, Ganesh, the primary god worshiped at this particular temple.

Subject : Hindu gods; Hindu temples; Hindu altars; Ratha Yatra (Hindu festival); Hindu Temple Society of North America, NY

Relation : Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives

Rights : This image is the property of James Wrona. Please contact info@jameswrona.com for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Flushing, Queens, NY Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Digital image

Format : Color photographs; 300 ppi

Identifier : aql:19541 wrona-03-0716 wrona-03-0716.tif