Pooja Room - A Place of Worship

In approximately all the Indian Hindu Homes, a cut off room is kept for " pooja " or praying. This room is called the "Pooja Room" and in this room, the deities and God's Idols are kept. Pooja rooms are decorated with these idols in silver or chrome frames, with lots of flowers and minuscule jewelry or naturally idols are painted in gorgeous colours and are made of clay. In expanding to the idols, there are many items kept for worshipping in the pooja room. The pooja room is also used by some for meditation. Even if there a space constraint in the house in any Indian Home, a small space, anywhere in the house is reserved to perform all kind of primary rituals and pooja.

A typical Pooja room is decorated with pure simplicity. However, in the antique times, the pooja room was not supposed to be kept inside the house except for the 'Brahmins'. There used to be a cut off place surface the house for the family God.Gradually, when the notion of nuclear families became more prevalent, each family wanted to have their own temple, and the "Pooja mandir's started looking space inside the houses.

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In most of the household, the room of the god is painted in earthy colors and have essentially a wooden door. It could be a grand one with ornamentation or a simple one with minimum ethnic touches depending upon the status of an individual. These days, due to lack of space, there is portable mandir in every house. The mandirs are even made of whitewood, composition of wood and silver, depending upon personel option and affordability to buy a singular individual. Countries like India have primary craftsmen who compose the Pooja mandir and carve them by hand without using any machines. These are called 'wooden handicrafts'. Traditionally ' Rangoli' is put in front of the mandir, in mostly all the southern part of India.

According to antique Indian Science of Architecture called the Vastu Shastra, the ideal place for holding the Pooja Room is the North-east. This direction is connected with prosperity, peace of mind, wealth and happiness.

Normally, the Pooja room is decorated with lightweight idols or pictures by believer's of Vastu Shastra. We get lovely minuscule garlands in small colorful beads, pearls, or flowers made out of cloth. Pooja room door small see-through sections where tiny brass bells are attached.These bells furnish gorgeous melody when the door is opened or closed.

Pooja Room - A Place of Worship

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