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The Indian State of Georgia

Hindu temples in the South offer open places of worship.

In Georgia, the Indian American population more than doubled in the past decade, reaching nearly 100,000 according to 2010 census data. That’s as much as Houston’s Indian American population by raw numbers and faster than the growth rate in Jersey City, NJ, where one of the largest Indian American communities in North America exists. Indian Americans are now the largest group of Asian Americans in the state of Georgia, and the Hindu subset of that group has funded and built seven temples in the Atlanta area alone, including the largest one outside of India.