Makar Sankranti is a Hindu festival dependent on the position of the sun and celebration of Sankranti who is considered a Deity for Hindus and is celebrated in many ways including worship for the departed ancestors and to worship Saraswati.

Narada is the author of the Pāñcarātra, a standard text for Vaisnava's priests which contains the technical and philosophical meanings of the temple Deity worship.

Without the telephone, one could not have a conversation across long distances ; and without the sanctified image in the temple, one cannot easily talk with the Deity .” Moreover, anthropologist Christopher John Fuller notes that an image in Hinduism cannot be equated with a deity and the object of worship is the divine whose power is inside the image, and the image is not the object of worship itself, Hindus believe everything is worthy of worship as it contains divine energy emanating from the one god.

He fulfilled his mission by building two temples of his own, giving blessings to dozens of groups to build temples in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and elsewhere, gifting Deity images to 36 temples to begin the worship, and establishing the Hindu Heritage Endowment to support Hindu temples, organizations, relief efforts, publications and other institutions and projects worldwide.

He used to worship a Deity named Golokananda.

Around this time, a branch of the Sri ( Ramanuja ) Sampradaya known as the Ramanandi sect, in the court of the king Sadacari Raja at Jaipur, Rajasthan, complained that as the Gaudiya Vaisnavas had no commentary on the Vedanta Sutra, they were not qualified to worship the Deity and therefore the worship should be turned over to the Sri Sampradaya.

Around this time ( 1718 CE ), a branch of the Sri ( Ramanuja ) Sampradaya known as the Ramanandi sect, in the court of the king Sadacari Raja at Jaipur, Rajasthan, complained that since the Gaudiya Vaisnavas had no commentary on the Vedanta Sutra, they were not qualified to worship the Deity and therefore the worship should be turned over to the Sri Sampradaya.

He has also published, as editor, Alternative Krishnas: Regional and Vernacular Variations on a Hindu Deity ( SUNY Press, 2005 ), wherein he presented the Krishnology of the Vaishnava sect known as the Radhavallabha Sampradaya.

For the Hellenes, high on the cliff a temple was built, which became a worship site devoted to Aphrodite, in her particular local presence as Aphrodite Amathusia along with a bearded male Aphrodite called Aphroditos.

In Greek mythology, Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python, a dragon who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth.

To foster the worship of the imperial family, he erected a dynastic mausoleum on the site of Vespasian's former house on the Quirinal, and completed the Temple of Vespasian and Titus, a shrine dedicated to the worship of his deified father and brother.

This temple site is the oldest known man-made place of worship.

This theory is confirmed by the worship of Zeus Labraundos () in Caria of Anatolia, where also existed a sacred site named Labraunda.

Lykaion was an important site of religious worship in ancient Greece.

This temple site may be the oldest known human-made place of worship.

The many dead bodies were dumped in a river, on the site which housed the Kalinago place of worship.

However they do concede that the site was probably multifunctional and used for ancestor worship as well.

However the most important site of worship to Tlaloc was on the peak of Mount Tlaloc, a 4100 metres high mountain on the eastern rim of the Valley of Mexico.

Yamoussoukro is also the site of what is claimed to be the largest Christian place of worship on Earth: The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, consecrated by Pope John Paul II on 10 September 1990.

Letoon, an important center in Hellenic times of worship for the goddess Leto and her twin children, Apollo and Artemis, and nearby Xanthos, ancient capital of Lycia, constitute a UNESCO World Heritage site.

About 280, an early Christian house of worship was established on the site of Santa Susanna, which, like many of the earliest Christian meeting places, was in a house ( domus ecclesiae ).

This edifice, in the Perpendicular style, opened for public worship in 1821, occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts, though differing in style and proportions from the original structure.

In 135 CE, Hadrian is said to have had the Christian site above the Grotto converted into a worship place for Adonis, the Greek pagan god of beauty and desire.

Muslims view the site as being one of the earliest and most noteworthy places of worship of God.

This site was infamous for idol worship throughout the First Temple period, until king of Judah, Josiah, finally destroyed " the high places that were before Jerusalem, to the right of Har HaMashchit ..."( II Kings 23: 13 )

The site, the size of four American football fields, contains an extensive array of personal and ceremonial items looted during the riots against Jewish property and places of worship on the night of 9 November 1938.

Mexico City's 17th-century Basilica of Guadalupe -- built in honor of the Virgin and perhaps Mexico's most important religious building — was constructed at the base of the hill of Tepeyac, believed to be a site used for pre-Columbian worship of Tonantzin.

The original church is no longer extant, but a standing Celtic cross testifies to the presence of Christian worship at the site in pre-Norman times.

The existing third of the nave has been restored as an active place of worship and there are plans to build a visitor centre on the site.

The event unofficially begins on that Sunday evening with a community worship service held at the fairgrounds at the south end of town ( site of the former Mooreland School ).

The film concludes with a Sunday morning service on the site of a destroyed house of worship, attended by both white and black churchgoers singing in unison.

ISKCON also offers instruction in archana, or murti worship and devotional ceremony, through the Mayapur Academy.

ISKCON adherents view Krishna as the supreme deity that those of other faith traditions worship.

In 1986-1987 a number of senior members and newly appointed GBC members with the support of Satsvarupa dasa Goswami reformed ISKCON guru system, lowering unprecedented level of worship reserved to initiating gurus in ISKCON.

Gaudiya Vaishnavas who worship Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the cause of all causes consider Love for Godhead ( Prema ) to act in two ways: sambhoga and vipralambha ( union and separation ) — two opposites.

" Gaudiya " refers to the Gauḍa region ( present day Bengal / Bangladesh ) with Vaishnavism meaning " the worship of Vishnu ".

The focus of Gaudiya Vaishnavism is the devotional worship ( bhakti ) of Radha and Krishna, and their many divine incarnations as the supreme forms of God, Svayam Bhagavan.

The town hosts hundreds of temples dedicated to the worship of Radha and Krishna and is considered sacred by a number of religious traditions such as Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Vaishnavism, and Hinduism in general.

In some instances such as with Gaudiya Vaishnavism, specific emphasis is placed on the worship of God's female aspect ( Radharani ) even above that of her paramour Krishna.

Jiva Gosvami had stated in his Paramatma Sandarbha, forming part of six principal Sandarbhas, or philosophical treateses of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, that, " Seeing that the imperfect scriptures in the modes of passion and ignorance bring only a host of troubles, and also seeing that the original Vedas are very difficult to follow properly, and thus being very dissatisfied with both of these, the all-knowing scripture authors affirm the superiority of the Pancaratras, which describe the pure absolute truth, Narayana, and the worship of the Lord, which is very easy to perform.

* In one of the depictions, the goddess holds both the trident of Shiva and the discus of Vishnu, possibly marking her as the great goddess who transcends the duality of Saiva and Vaishnava worship.

Narasimha Swami Temple is an important centre of Vaishnava worship in walajapet and adjoining villages.

However, there are also some Vaishnava Hindus in Malaysia as well, many of them of North Indian extraction, and these Hindus worship in temples such as the Geeta Ashram in Seksyen 52, Petaling Jaya, or the Lakshmi-Narayan Temple in Kampung Kasipillay, Kuala Lumpur.

According to Sri Vaishnava philosophy it is considered to be one of the Divya desam ( 108 in total ) or holy places of worship of Lord Vishnu praised by Alwars in a compilation called the Nalayira Divya Prabandha.

The tradition was forming in the context of Puranic Vaisnavism evolving in the process of revitalizing religion of Brahmanism, of which Vishnuism is believed to be a part of, through assimilating a number of orthodox, non-conformist and tribal elements ; the absorption of mother goddess worship, into what now known a Vaishnava sampradayas.

Pāñcarātra are the Vaishnava Sanskrit texts dedicated to worship of Narayana and form part of the Agamas.