Shree Kutch Satsang Swaminarayan Temple
Hindu temple founded by migrant traders, built stone by stone through a year-long letter exchange with its mother shrine in India.
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This guide to the Shree Kutch Satsang Swaminarayan Temple in Nairobi follows Leva Patel migrants who crossed from India's Kutch region to Mombasa and pushed inland to build Nairobi's trading spine along what was then Grogan Road. With no temple of their own, their elders wrote to the mother mandir in Bhuj asking permission to build, and waited a full year for its blessing to arrive. Clerks, mechanics and traders kept the city's cars and lorries running along that same stretch of road while the letter made its way across the ocean.
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