Sri Venkateswara Temple (Balaji Mandir), Bridgewater
श्री वेंकटेश्वर मंदिर (बालाजी मंदिर), ब्रिजवॉटर
📍 Bridgewater, New Jersey
🪔 Far away today? Offer an online puja to Shri Krishna →New Jersey's traditional stone Balaji temple, consecrated in 1998 by Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swami, with sixteen shrines on the fields of Bridgewater.
न्यू जर्सी का पारंपरिक पत्थर का बालाजी मंदिर — 1998 में श्री चिन्ना जीयर स्वामी द्वारा प्रतिष्ठित, सोलह सन्निधियों के साथ।
इतिहास History
Hindus in central New Jersey founded the Hindu Temple and Cultural Society of USA in 1989 and bought land in Bridgewater in February 1992, worshipping in the building already on it while they planned. Ground was broken in 1995, and Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swami performed the stone-laying in May 1996.
The 11,000-square-foot stone temple, built to the Vastu Shastras, was consecrated by Chinna Jeeyar Swami and other priests in 1998. An expansion approved in 2009, after a five-year zoning dispute, went ahead on a smaller scale.
दर्शन की जानकारी Before you go
- Hours
- Mon – Fri 8:30 am – 12:30 pm and 4:30 – 8:30 pm; Sat, Sun and national holidays 8:30 am – 8:30 pm.
- Food
- A cafeteria on site.
From the temple’s official website, checked in October 2026. Hours change for festivals and seasons, so confirm on the temple’s site or by phone before you travel. General temple etiquette →
दर्शनीय Don’t miss
- Lord Venkateswara with Sridevi and Bhudevi
- Sixteen shrines, among them Ganesha, Shiva, Ayyappa, Subrahmanya, Durga, Lakshmi, Rama and Anjaneya
- The cafeteria and Annaprasadam
- The carved rajagopuram rising over the fields
उत्सव Festivals
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